With origination profits leveling off, some mortgage bankers are looking to cash out. But can they still get top dollar?

Carrington Mortgage is in the market to buy residential servicing rights. Meanwhile, the mortgage application losing streak has ended.

Borrowers are given the option to either make a single, lump sum draw for adjustable and fixed-rate HECMs at closing or within the 12-month period after the loan closing.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities accounted for 74 percent of combined FHLB MBS portfolios in the second quarter, up 2 percent from 1Q13.

In a letter dispatched to CFPB Director Richard Cordray, MBA stresses that mortgage firms are not being allowed enough time to properly comply with the January 2014 implementation of the bureau’s many new rules.

The Chicago ordinance, which took effect in November 2011, requires mortgage lenders to register vacant properties with the city and pay a $500 registration fee.

Bank of America has once again unloaded a decent-sized chunk of mortgage servicing rights, this time Ginnie Mae product.

Among correspondent buyers of mortgages, SunTrust ranks 10th nationwide, according to half-year 2013 figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

As reported by IMFnews late last week, Stewart Title is buying Allonhill, a due diligence firm based in Denver. Meanwhile, look for billions of dollars in NPL sales soon.

Commercial banks and savings institutions continued to generate solid earnings on their mortgage banking activity during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new call report analysis by Inside Mortgage Trends. Banks and thrifts reported $8.164 billion in mortgage banking income during the second quarter, a 6.0 percent increase from the first three months of the year. It was, in fact, the second best quarterly earnings for the industry since the bank call report was amended in ... [Includes two data charts]