An OIG report finds the GSEs’ expected cost from pandemic-related forbearances has climbed about 30% in the past year.

The fee, passed a decade ago to help pay for a temporary payroll tax cut, expired Oct. 1. Democrats resurrected it for another decade to help pay for infrastructure priorities.

Roughly half of appraisers who work in both white and minority neighborhoods appear to systematically undervalue homes in predominately minority census tracts.

Dan Coates, senior advisor to Acting Director Sandra Thompson, will take over as head of the Division of Research and Statistics.

Reasons? Many borrowers are reaching the end of their forbearance periods...

According to the Oakleaf Group, an analytics firm, governing documents for many non-agency MBS don’t include an explanation on how to calculate the fair market value...

Acra's goal for 2022? To originate anywhere from $500 million to $750 million worth of these short-term loans.

On average, LOs facilitated 32% less refi volume in the third quarter, with $900,000 in refi production per month.

Deliveries of retail-originated loans to agency MBS fell 16.3% in the third quarter, while wholesale-broker volume was down 9.2%. (Includes two data charts.)

Mortgage lenders no longer gripe about the hard time they’re having finding qualified and reasonably priced personnel. A barometer of what may lie ahead?