The last day a broker can close a loan with GR is Feb. 28.

Eager to tap a red-hot servicing market, nonbank mortgage shops are sidling up to the sales trough. How long might the bonanza last? Maybe all year.

It should be a banner year for mergers and acquisitions in the residential finance space. Already, two deals have been announced, with more likely to follow.

The recommendations from a coalition of lenders, led by the Mortgage Bankers Association, were oriented largely at reducing the burden of data collection by allowing loans to be screened out of the process more easily.

The housing community continues to search for signs of negotiations on the Build Back Better agenda, but whether the legislation will pass or how much housing funding will remain in the final version of the bill is anybody’s guess.

loanDepot’s founder is busy buying luxury homes these days. In a few weeks we’ll know how well the company did in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, non-agency MBS production remains brisk.

After the acquisition closes, Redfin Mortgage will reduce its headcount by roughly 121 positions.

A few months back, CoreLogic was sold to Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners for roughly $6 billion.

The AGs said servicers are still sending borrowers letters that fail to include the COVID-19 recovery modification as an option, while requiring unnecessary paperwork...

Expanded-credit MBS issuance also increased in 2021, though it remained below the level seen in 2019.