Fitch: Here's the impact of Ocwen's massive MSR deal with New Residential

Ocwen Financial may be facing serious allegations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a hefty group of state regulators about the
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Fewer homes are at risk of hurricane damage in 2017 than in the year before and the 30-year average, according to CoreLogic's estimates. CoreLogic
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As per the earlier rule, a homebuyer had to waste many days and even allegedly pay a bribe to officials to get the mortgage permission and obtain a
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From farmers to the banks and lending institutions that provide financing for farm operations. Economist Nathan Kauffman with the Federal Reserve
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Matt Simmons, a partner at Maxwell, Hendry & Simmons, who also recently sat on a recent HousingWire panel to discuss the state of the appraisal
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Barclays has ended its 105-year presence in Zimbabwe by agreeing to sell its operations in the cash-starved African country to First Merchant Bank,
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Banks are allowed to settle NPA accounts even after taking large haircuts … “NPA recovery is one of the focus areas for the bank,” Aggarwal said.
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Grier Allen is the co-founder, president and CEO of BoomTown, a sales and marketing platform for real estate professionals that uses patented
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The original unpaid principal balance of single-family mortgage credit risk Fannie Mae has transferred since 2013 has risen to $1 trillion, the agency
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The rescue of Monte dei Paschi di Siena has been a long time coming. The problems at Italy's oldest bank, discernible as early as 2009, were rapidly
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Paulson & Co. and Blackstone Group LP are among investors backing a proposal that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac be recapitalized and released
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Bankers were trusted community leaders. If you attained such a label, you made your parents proud and found purpose in your calling. Today
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The deal would allow the Italian government to provide capital under a so-called precautionary recapitalization, which would require that the bank be
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A joint venture involving New York-based Gramercy Property Trust Inc. and San Francisco-based TPG Real Estate has paid $14.75 million for a
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Pareja name By the time Leo Pareja celebrated his 28th birthday, he was the No. 1 Keller Williams agent in the world. During his 15-year career of
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Big bank CEOs are counting on growth on the retail side of the business — from credit cards to mortgages — to help lift them out of the funk in
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In 2016, just 18 percent of homes for sale in the 30 largest U.S. metros were affordable for middle-class Hispanic families and 14 percent were
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If you ever attempt to read a real estate contract, you will quickly find that this paperwork is packed with a slew of terms you might not be familiar
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Guild Mortgage in San Diego has launched a 1%-down loan program to court millennial borrowers, who tend to lack down-payment resources and
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Long-term U.S. mortgage rates Long-term U.S. mortgage rates were flat to slightly lower this week. Current avg, Last week, 52-week high, 52-week low.
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