Celebrity Financial has several M&A irons in the fire...

In Washington mortgage servicers must now maintain recorded telephone conversations with consumers for three years after the date of the call…

Certain SFR operators have been criticized for gobbling up thousands of properties for corporate ownership, thus removing these units from the inventory of homes available for sale.

Bright has been mentioned in housing and mortgage circles as a possible successor to FHFA Director Mel Watt.

When bonuses and benefits are factored in, Grimes says the pay disparity totals $100,000 per year...

CFPB Announces HMDA File Format Verification Tool and New 2017 Dataset. The CFPB earlier this month released the 2018 File Format Verification Tool (FFVT) which tests whether HMDA reporters’ files meet certain formatting requirements needed to submit data to the HMDA platform. Specifically, the FFVT will test whether the file is pipe-delimited, has the proper number of data fields, and has data fields formatting as integers, where necessary ... [Includes three briefs]

CALCAP is looking to expand into the Texas market…

A year ago, just 12.1 percent of new purchase loans fell into the highest-risk category…

The FHFA wants Fannie and Freddie to institute proper controls and perform monitoring on their multifamily counterparties…

“Zillow could have done this on a much larger scale. Heck, they could’ve bought Ditech,” said industry consultant Paul Hindman.