It's that time of the season: MBS issuance was down 30.6 percent at Fannie and off 17.4 percent at Freddie.

Sky high housing costs in the Bay Area prompts one lender to roll out a $2 million jumbo loan, no money down...

PE firms and hedge funds are showing a strong interest in the emerging class of subprime residential lenders...

The average loan-to-value ratio of the NPLs is 91 percent, based on the broker price opinion.

The trade group’s profitability calculation is based on average production volume of $614 million per company in the third quarter.

Time to rejoice: purchase-lending could regularly top $1 trillion a year...

During the worst of the buyback storm in late 2012 and early 2013, the GSEs reported over $18.51 billion of unresolved repurchase requests and as much as $13.22 billion in buybacks during a single quarter.

According to its website, Movement Mortgage also seeks to hire underwriters, a mortgage licensing specialist and an associate general counsel.

On the $5.9 billion MSR pool, 42 percent of the rights are tied to mortgages in California, Florida and Texas...

Stonegate Mortgage is the top contributor to the deal with a 32.3 percent share, followed by Prime Lending with a 21.6 percent share...