A lack of affordable homes to buy could stifle the first-time home buyer market, Genworth believes…

A key GOP lawmaker is raising concerns about $353 million in funds slated to be paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac toward affordable housing programs, while a liberal-leaning think tank tries to show that a proposed Senate reform plan would do more for affordable housing than critics say.

Invitation Homes, the nation’s largest single-family rental operator, lost $46.0 million in the fourth quarter...

“The new year has all of us in the MSR market off to a running start as we see increases in mortgage rates and lower originations leading to greater demand, allowing for improved pricing of the MSR asset,” said Tom Piercy, managing director of Incenter Mortgage Advisors, Denver.

Flagstar also will hire Santander’s “existing" warehouse relationship managers...

Most complaints from seniors over the past two years centered on conventional mortgages…

It appears that Pershing Square is now under water on its GSE investments...

The agency will issue seven more RFIs in the coming weeks on such topics as complaint reporting and inherited rules.

Borrowers with credit scores below 700 accounted for 22.03 percent of GSE purchase loans last year…

Movement locked rates on $1.1 billion of mortgages in January, an 11 percent increase from the same month a year ago. It called the improvement an "indicator of future growth in February and March.”