The warehouse lending business remains profitable, but that doesn’t mean the sector is without challenges. There’s been two recent exits, but on the plus-side, the nation’s ninth-largest warehouse shop has filed for an initial public offering with plans to quickly double its business.

The wildfires in California may prompt a rare decline for home prices in the Golden State.

Cenlar, a warehouse lender? It would like to be, but first the subservicing giant has to escape the regulatory jaws of the OCC.

The House Financial Services Committee is now led by Rep. French Hill, R-AR, who is considered a staunch supporter of the legislation.

Bill Pulte, Trump’s choice to run the FHFA, is a scion of a homebuilding industry giant, but his background is mostly in private equity and philanthropy.

The Trump administration will likely take starkly different positions on housing and the mortgage market compared with the Biden administration. Expect changes at the GSEs, while a reduction to FHA mortgage insurance premiums looks unlikely.

It’s not every day that an expanded-credit specialist branches out into conventional funding. But that’s what A&D Mortgage is doing via its acquisition of Flagstar’s TPO unit.

Depository institutions posted nice gains in MSR values in the fourth quarter, thanks to rising interest rates. But higher rates come at a cost in the form of lower originations.

Republicans, who have long opposed the bi-merge credit scoring model, now control Congress. That, combined with Trump’s “regulatory freeze,” could spell the end of this part of credit report reform.

The wildfires add new challenges to California’s growing property insurance and housing affordability crisis.