Portfolio recapture, wholesale, and builder channels accounted for almost 79 percent of its fundings in 2Q.

The White House believes that the current housing finance system, where the government guarantees more than 80 percent of all mortgages through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA, is unsustainable.

Is refi specialist CashCall still on the auction block?

Most of the apartment loans being securitized go through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

The guidelines follow the Senate’s passage last week of the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013.

According to an IRS private-letter ruling, certain excess servicing rights would constitute a real-estate asset, and income from the spread would be treated as interest on obligations secured by mortgages on real property.

The market for residential servicing rights continues to gain momentum with two new offerings from The Prestwick Mortgage Group.

Mortgage brokerage firms added new workers in June but at a very slow pace, a sign that the origination market is slowing.

Ocwen is looking at $400 billion of MSR deals, at least. Meanwhile, a lager wholesale may exit, and no, it's not EverBank.

A federal district court in New York last week ruled that a landmark discrimination lawsuit, the first to connect racial discrimination to the securitization of mortgage-backed securities, can move forward against Morgan Stanley. A July 25 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Adkins v. Morgan Stanley denied in part the investment bank’s motion to dismiss the case, which alleges violations of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The putative class-action suit was filed...