Attorney Barbara Mishkin notes: “…the amicus brief to be filed by the U.S. can be expected to support PHH’s position that the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is unconstitutional.”

Four mortgages from First Republic Bank were subject to limited reviews that didn’t include checks for compliance with TRID.

Fairholme extolled the GSE’s massive fourth quarter profits of almost $10 billion, and called them “indispensable” to the mortgage insurance industry…

Perhaps, residential servicers should receive 33 basis points for servicing Fannie/Freddie loans, not 25 bps...

"You can't overload the human brain," said newly minted HUD secretary Ben Carson. And there was more...

Just three depositories ranked among the top 15 issuers for February…

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said there’s still plenty of demand for home equity loans and cash-out refis but…

Redwood officials note that in recent months pricing for jumbo MBS has been stronger than the bid for whole loan sales…

Cowen notes: “…this latest flare up reinforces our view that Treasury is unlikely in 2017 to unilaterally change the profit sweep at Fannie and Freddie…”

Although Freedom is private, a few years back it launched a publicly traded REIT called Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment, which lately has been trading near its 52-week high.