Lenders with correspondent networks that buy already-funded mortgages (agency or otherwise) are pondering their sale options.

Prepayment speeds are dropping on agency MBS but there could be choppy waters ahead on VA IRRRLs. For now, VA is staying quiet.

All things equal, "agency" jumbo volume might be expected to grow when loan limits are raised.

On the way out, via his retirement, is veteran Jack Nunnery, who will be replaced by one of his lieutenants, Madison Simm. Nunnery has been with TCB for 14 years...

Appraisal professional Mike Ford: “We’re not permitted to consider the race of the residents, their sexual orientation, their age or their gender.”

Not racial bias, but geographical incompetence is the reason appraisers mar home valuations, according to agents interviewed by IMF.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is known mostly as a servicing broker and whole loan trader, but through an affiliate it wants to help nonbank mortgage firms tap the student loan market. Will it fly?

Rohit Chopra’s nomination is in a holding pattern. Meanwhile, the CFPB is losing two high-profile enforcement attorneys and the DFPI its commissioner.

The real estate finance company completed its merger with Anworth and reported strong first-quarter results on Freddie Mac business.

No purchase price was revealed. It marks at least the second known correspondent sale of the spring/summer season...