When rates rise, loan officers begin to bite their nails, unless they are heavily reliant on purchase-money loans.

Residential debt outstanding fell slightly in the first quarter, but the GSE/FHA share of the market continued to grow.

The pool of mortgages in Shellpoint's first deal has a combined loan-to-value ratio of 65 percent, slightly lower than other recent non-agency MBS.

There is still no official word on when the Senate Banking Committee will take up the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

MBA pushes for GSE AU engines to be synchronized. Meanwhile, a factoid of mortgage history: Treasury chief Paulson wanted Fannie and Freddie put in receivership.

Thanks to rising interest rates, now may be the time for Flagstar to sell a huge block of servicing.

Yet another plan to reshape the mortgage market has been published, this one from noted housing economist Mark Zandi, and Ellen Seidman, once the nation's top S&L regulator.

Because of the "qualified mortgage" rule WesBanco may kill a charitable home loan program that has been in place since 1951.

In addition to having the most failed metrics, CitiMortgage was found to be in “widespread” noncompliance with the timeliness requirement to notify a borrower of any missing documents in his modification application.

While some banks have started to securitize jumbo mortgages, the vast majority of jumbo originations remain in portfolio.