One constitutional issue that garnered some attention: whether a multi-member commission is more legitimate than a single director…

Citadel’s small-balance commercial program will include mixed-use retail and other loan types.

Stearns said that temporary interest rate buy-downs are good for borrowers who expect their incomes to increase in the relatively near future.

For the week, IMA rolled out $3.87 billion worth of servicing auctions.

When’s the last time a publicly traded mortgage company was sold in a stock transaction?

Correspondent lenders and mortgage brokers took slightly less severe declines in origination volume in early 2017 than was seen in the retail channel, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis. All three production channels were down sharply as total first-lien mortgage originations tumbled 33.6 percent from the fourth quarter of 2016. The retail segment saw the biggest decline, dropping 34.6 percent to an estimated $221.0 billion. Retail production typically features...[Includes four data tables]

Warehouse lenders ended the first quarter of 2017 with an estimated $59.0 billion of commitments on their books, a 4.8 percent sequential decline, according to exclusive survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. Compared to a year ago, commitments were up 13.5 percent. However, many nonbanks sign commitment deals but don’t always draw on the lines very heavily. A case in point was the first quarter: the drop in commitments was benign compared to the overall decline in originations. Industrywide, residential lending fell by 33.6 percent from the fourth quarter. The good news for the warehouse sector is...[Includes one data table]

The Trump administration has revived a controversial proposal to tap FHA lenders to help pay for technology upgrades at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD is among nine federal agencies facing significant cuts in their discretionary budgets, al-though guarantee commitments for FHA’s single-family mortgage insurance program and Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities programs were kept at their previous fiscal levels, $400 billion and $500 billion, respectively. The White House budget plan incorporates...

As summer approaches, the mortgage mergers-and-acquisitions market is heating up – with mostly talk. However, soon that chatter may lead to actual deals. According to investment banking sources, at least three mid-sized nonbanks may pull the exit parachute soon, with offering books ready to follow. The identity of the three firms was not provided, but the firms are well known, said one source. Meanwhile, the list of possible buyers hasn’t changed...

There wasn’t much mention of the interpretation and enforcement of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act during oral arguments this week before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead, nearly all of the discussion revolved around constitutional questions. The biggest issue was about just how much power to “faithfully execute” the laws of United States the president is left with if the only way to remove the head of a single-director agency is “for cause.” The other constitutional issues that garnered some attention were...