Freddie expects originations to hit $2.0 trillion this year, a 14.3 percent sequential improvement…

One mortgage CEO who runs a California-based shop told IMF his firm recently was in a pinch and paid a $1,500 “rush fee” to an appraiser to get a deal done on time.

Founded by former Goldman Sachs executive Donald Mullen, Pretium Partners bills itself as a specialized investment management firm with roughly $6.5 billion of assets under management.

Will a potential residential mortgage customer bolt Wells Fargo because they can’t trust the bank’s employees, including its retail loan officers?

“We’re extremely concerned the CSP would be transferred to a nonprofit or a corporation where the board members include executives from JPMorgan Chase or GE Capital,” CMLA's Corso said.

As rates increase, more deals are hitting the market...

Despite improvement in securitization returns, jumbo whole loan sales are still more profitable, KBW said.

In fact, these two categories are responsible for more than 75 percent of all defects.

All of the second-quarter increase can be attributed to Bank of America, which reported $372.0 million in repurchases for the period – up $67.0 million from the first quarter.

Even Under Trump, Would the CFPB Be Invincible? If businessman Donald Trump wins the White House in November, the CFPB would be in the Republican’s crosshairs for sure. But the bureau’s recent consumer fraud case against Wells Fargo for opening up roughly two million deposit and credit card accounts without authorization has caused such outrage nationwide that it may very well give the controversial regulator a “shield” of sorts. At least that’s what we’ve been…