mortgage lending

Stearns Holdings, the parent company of residential mortgage lender Stearns Lending, filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday morning after agreeing on a debt-restructuring plan...

Amid a nationwide housing slowdown, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have increasingly backed more home mortgages to Americans steeped in debt. About 30 percent...

Brown Harris Stevens Miami is forming an alliance with commercial and residential lenders. BHS Miami is partnering with Hollywood-based FM Capital and New York-based...

A survey by a law firm shows that residential mortgage loans and commercial mortgage loans of $1 million or more increased last year in Palm...

The online discount real estate startup Redfin wants to get into the lending business. The property broker is planning to offer buyers using its...

BankUnited, the largest bank based in South Florida, stopped making residential mortgage loans to consumers and laid off some of its staff. Mary Harris,...

Banks are losing market share in the home-loan business to non-bank mortgage companies unaffiliated with a depository institution. A bullish sign of the times is...

From the moment a home-purchase offer is accepted until the buyer closes a mortgage loan to finance the purchase, one or more common missteps...

Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group is set to write its first residential mortgage in Miami this week through a new unit called B2R Finance. Already...

Mortgage lending in the United States fell to a 16-year low in 2011, amid a struggling recovery and slowing refinancing activity, the Wall Street...