Early reporters of fourth-quarter results are giving the mortgage industry a glimpse of what’s to come for everyone else: weak or negative origination growth. Message: The party can’t last forever.

It’s not easy to bring multi-state enforcement actions, yet regulators from 44 states signed consent orders with 441 loan officers who lied about having completed required annual continuing education courses.

Hunting for new sources of revenue, several regional banks are planning to offer credit lines to nonbank mortgage shops. The collateral: MSRs.

The mortgage industry has resigned itself to no administrative end to the Fannie and Freddie conservatorships. It’s still unclear what happens to the GSEs’ capital requirements.

Fannie Mae failed to implement new NPL reporting requirements in 2018, as required by its regulator.

Mortgage servicers have begun working with states on their new federally funded homeowner assistance programs.

Depositories made up some ground on the nonbanks with a combined fourth quarter market share of 31.2%.

Better.com hired a former federal prosecutor from the Southern District of New York to conduct the "culture" review...

Those settling will surrender their licenses...

However, the number of borrowers unhappy with the loan-modification process jumped 12.7%...