As the share of investors purchasing homes declines, mortgage financing continues to take market share from cash financing for home purchases, according to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey. Non-cash financing was used on 72.4 percent of home purchases in November, based on a three-month moving average. That’s up from a 70.7 percent share in November 2013 and a share as low as 66.9 percent in March 2012. Prior to the housing crisis, the non-cash share of total home sales averaged...

President Obama this week signed a comprehensive package of spending bills, providing funding to federal agencies through fiscal 2015 but missing two initiatives that would have toughened FHA enforcement and benefited new homeowners through enhanced housing counseling. The FY 2015 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act is comprised of 11 funding bills for all federal agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bill provides...

The OCC said two banks exited the residential mortgage business in 2014 and another two plan to exit in the coming year.

A handful of other large national wholesalers offer LPMI, including United Wholesale Mortgage.

Advocates for GSE reform looking for savings in the federal budget will be disappointed...

When settlements are first reported rarely does the money change hands right away.

Plunging oil prices have led to a sell-off in stocks and a flight to quality, namely U.S. Treasuries and agency-backed MBS.

A mid-sized nonbank based in Texas saw two of its top officers resign last week, industry sources confirmed to IMFnews.

Based on the upward production trend over the last three quarters, it appears the private MIs are on their way to a strong close at year-end.

The monitor said Green Tree is working toward addressing issues that caused the servicer to fail eight metrics that were tested in the fourth quarter of 2013.