ABN AMRO Mortgage Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction, Primary Mortgage Sales (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ABN AMRO Mortgage has received the award for ranking highest in customer sales satisfaction among 13 profiled mortgage lenders, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Primary Mortgage Origination Study.

Lenders try to keep mortgage boom alive (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hoping to ride a new wave of profits as the mortgage boom winds down, lenders have changed course and are targeting borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages and encouraging them to refinance into fixed-rate loans.

Loan brokers might face stiff state regulations (Spokane Journal of Business)
The Edmonds, Wash.-based Washington Association of Mortgage Brokers has announced its support of pending legislation that would require mortgage loan officers to be licensed and would expand the state Department of Financial Institutions’ oversight authority over mortgage brokerages.