February home sales in Illinois were down 6.2% from February 2013, due to a brutal winter. …read more

The impact of the weakening housing market at the end of 2013 lingered around into the start of 2014. But this is expected to finally turn around as the industry heads into the second quarter and continue to build throughout the summer. …read more

ForbesFollow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. Corporate envelopes are no longer an effective way to buy real estate in Britain after the Government introduced an annual tax on empty, corporate-owned properties worth more than £500,000. and more …read more

ForbesFollow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. Corporate envelopes are no longer an effective way to buy real estate in Britain after the Government introduced an annual tax on empty, corporate-owned properties worth more than £500,000. and more …read more

Moody’s Investors Service has assigned provisional ratings to four classes of certificates backed by one floating rate loan secured by mortgages on 3,399 single-family rental properties owned by the Colony American Homes 2014-1 securitization. …read more

Moody’s Investors Service assigned provisional ratings to four classes of certificates backed by one floating rate loan secured by mortgages on 3,399 single-family rental properties owned by the Colony American Homes 2014-1 securitization. …read more

Continuing jobless claims rose the most in two months, coming in well above analyst expectations for the eighth week in a row, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. …read more

Existing home sales fell again for the second month in a row, falling 0.4%. February’s pace of sales was the lowest since July 2012, when it stood at 4.59 million. …read more

Existing home sales fell again for the second month in a row, falling 0.4%. February’s pace of sales was the lowest since July 2012, when it stood at 4.59 million. …read more

Housingwire decided to try our luck and laugh in the face of astronomical odds so we entered a bracket of our own into the contest. …read more

Mortgage rates eased for the week ending March 20, following a drop in housing starts and the Fed’s decision to continue to taper. …read more

New Residential Investment posted a GAAP income of $80.5 million, or 31 cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2013, following significant adjustments and investments in mortgage servicing rights. …read more

Chinese Billionaire Xiong Xuqiang Targets Tech, Joins Diversifying Property …ForbesChinese real estate billionaire Xiong Xuqiang has purchased a 20% stake in a Chinese publicly traded semiconductor packaging company, the latest in a flurry of moves by property developers to diversify as China faces slower economic growth. Xiong, who … …read more

Chinese Billionaire Xiong Xuqiang Targets Tech, Joins Diversifying Real Estate …ForbesChinese real estate billionaire Xiong Xuqiang has purchased a 20% stake in a Chinese publicly traded semiconductor packaging company, the latest in a flurry of moves by property developers to diversify as China faces slower economic growth. Xiong, who … …read more

For four years now, the Federal Housing Finance Agency failed to submit the Federal Home Loan Banks’ director expense data to Congress, as required by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act. …read more

As we enter the all-important spring selling season, it appears that lenders are willing to do what’s in their control to gradually expand the credit box and with it the pool of potential home buyers. …read more

Impac Mortgage Holdings posted a net loss for the year ended 2013 of $8.2 million, or 94 cents per diluted common share. …read more

Ocwen Financial Corp is set to pay $268 million to California residents as part of $2.1 billion settlement of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigation into its servicing practices. …read more

In light of the market heading into the spring buying season, Zillow launched its new mortgage pre-approval tool that allows home shoppers to get pre-approved for a mortgage quickly and easily. …read more

A Congressman is introducing a bill to open the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau up to face the same scrutiny as every single other commission, regulatory body and government body in Washington, D.C. …read more

If you are looking to sell your home, living on the West Coast drastically gives you the upper hand on selling power as spring home shopping season heats up. …read more

In a near unanimous vote, the Federal Open Market Committee of the central bank elected to continue the taper program of quantitative easing started at the end of 2013 under the former Fed Chair. …read more

Instead of worrying about the points and fees on a $100,000 loan, the unequal treatment third party fees, or mortgage insurance requirements at this conference, let’s talk about how advances in technology enable a lender to meet these requirements, even if two separate regulations oppose each other. …read more

Residential home loan refinances continued on a downward trend in February, according to the origination insight report for February 2014 from Ellie Mae. …read more

TitleOne Corporation acquired Land Title and Escrow, southern Idaho’s largest title and escrow company. …read more