First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation, a Virginia Corporation, providing residential mortgage lending services for over 25 years, has appointed correspondent lending sales veteran, Tom Davis to be its National TPO Sales Director.

Castle & Cooke Mortgage, LLC, an independent mortgage lender with 44 locations across the United States, recently announced the expansion of its footprint in Utah with the opening of its ninth branch in North Salt Lake.

GDP growth was modest in the BEA's second Q4 estimate. Will the GDP make a comeback, and what does this all mean for housing?

According to Ernst Publishing Company, a provider of technology and closing cost data for the real estate and home finance industries for the past 26 years, that crisis was averted by technology.

Nancy G. Pratt, VP of Partner Strategies, Government Affairs at real estate technology company Pavaso, was elected to serve as co-chair of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization eMortgage Workgroup at the organization’s Winter Summit in January.

CEO Jay Bray said the company is entering 2016 "well-positioned from a strategic, operational and capital perspective.”

In the midst of tight supply, heightened competition for buyers, and unpredictable financial markets, U.S. home prices continued to rise in the fourth quarter.

As new challenges arise, additional companies will have the opportunity to join the Solutions Group and participate in helping create the next generation of customized industry services.

Ten-X (formerly Auction.com), an online marketplace for real estate, recently announced that it has formed a partnership with Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute.

For a program that was only supposed to be temporary, HARP is still going rather strong as the Federal Housing Finance Agency makes one final push to get more homeowners refinanced.