According to a new letter obtained by Inside Mortgage Finance, HUD says it is uncertain whether any new loan created under the controversial eminent domain plan would qualify for FHA insurance.

Is the warehouse market about to open up to select hard money lenders? Perhaps, but it won't be a tidal wave.

FHFA has handed over a list of CEO candidates to Spencer Stuart, which bills itself as an international recruiting firm with 54 offices in 29 countries.

CashCall may be in trouble with New York State. So, where's Senator Reed's GSE bill?

Over the rest of the decade will any lender be able to challenge Wells Fargo's dominance in the retail channel? A new ranking suggests not.

The PATH Act awaits a vote on the House floor. But Hensarling’s measure is widely viewed as a non-starter in comparison to the Senate’s bipartisan Corker-Warner bill.

Fannie sold $2.2 billion of non-agency assets in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, Freddie sold at least $1 billion of non-prime MBS in May.

The Federal Trade Commission plans to ask the Office of Management and Budget to extend through Nov. 30, 2016, the current Paperwork Reduction Act clearance for the FTC’s shared enforcement with the CFPB of the information collection requirements in Regulation N (Mortgage Acts and Practices – Advertising). That clearance expires Nov. 30, 2013. The FTC is inviting public comments on a handful of related issues, the first of which is whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the...

Even though the CFPB has yet to release its final rule and related forms under its consolidated consumer disclosure project, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently announced they are working on a standardized dataset to support the forms when the rule is finalized by the bureau, which is expected in October. The government-sponsored enterprises’ dataset is called the Uniform Closing Dataset, and is a component of Fannie’s and Freddie’s Uniform Mortgage Data Program, an ongoing effort to enhance the accuracy and quality of loan data...

Up until recently, if a mortgage joint venture of Wells Fargo asked its partner if the megabank was still feeling the love for joint ventures, the answer would’ve been yes. At least that’s the word from one JV executive who received the news recently that Wells was tossing all of its origination JVs overboard. Earlier in the year, the bank told its two largest JVs – HomeServices Lending and Prosperity Mortgage – that everything was hunky dory. Well, apparently not. Of course, both Home and Prosperity needn’t worry...