Thanks, in part, to HARP loans private mortgage insurers in 2012 posted their best year since the financial market collapse back in 2008, according to new figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Fortress Investment Group has raised $1.6 billion to buy mortgage assets, including servicing rights.

Fannie Mae is working on a plan to sell billions of dollars of nonperforming loans in the second quarter.

Officially, the GSE net-worth minimum is set at $2.5 million, but some in the industry think it will double eventually.

The CFPB said mortgage lenders can ask the agency "important" interpretation questions on the many rules that it finalized this year.

President Obama, during his State of the Union address, urged Congress to get the HARP 3.0 refinancing program off the ground.

Is PennyMac Financial Services, which just filed for an IPO, really part of PNC?

The CFPB has warned the mortgage banking industry that it should pay close attention to loss mitigation work when servicing rights are transferred.

FHA single-family production rose 22.3 percent in 2012, but another increase in the mortgage insurance premiums will likely accelerate the program’s three-year decline in market share.

JPMorgan Chase is working on a jumbo MBS deal but it may place the bond in the the private market.