Will a coming boom in the production of non-qualified mortgages help residential lenders survive the origination slump?

The most profitable business for Fannie and Freddie is loans with high credit scores and LTV ratios of 60 percent or less.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew acknowledged that HAMP hasn’t been as successful as the Obama administration would have liked.

Sen. Shelby is an Alabama Republican with a populist streak who is no friend of the GSEs, but he may side with shareholders of the two companies who are getting shafted by Treasury “sweeps.”

To participate in the MSR market, institutional investors must partner with licensed and compliant servicers.

The downfall of Community Home is intriguing: the servicer closed its Jackson office and had customers send payments to Las Vegas. From there, payments were sent to a location in Costa Rica, according to AP.

In case you haven’t noticed, many mortgage stocks are trading much closer to their 52-week lows than their highs.

The Treasury Department will hold meetings with issuers of non-agency MBS in the coming months to pick their brains on how the government can assist in uncovering "new paths" to increase private investment.

While jumbo mortgage securitization is currently attractive to issuers, industry analysts suggest that volume will remain limited this year due to a number of factors.

The home-equity origination market rebounded somewhat during 2013, but none of these loans are winding up in new securities.