Retail mortgage-origination platforms tend to generate lower-risk mortgages than other channels, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of home loans delivered into Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities.

Bill Maloni, a retired Fannie executive who’s been tracking the reform debate for years, believes the Corker bill, if enacted as is, eventually will place the secondary market in the hands of the megabanks.

Neither Hensarling or Waters addressed the fundamental RESPA issues involved in the case…

Calabria is a former director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank that would like to do away Fannie and Freddie…

One executive familiar with SoFi’s residential business said the company is operating on razor thin profit margins…

Even though residential originations could fall by as much as 20 percent this year, lenders are continuing to pay top dollar for high-producing loan officers, in what some call a “pricing war.”

The FHFA would be tasked with maximizing profits on any asset sales by Fannie and Freddie, according to the Corker bill…

However, at the markup, the bill was amended to limit the types of mortgages that will receive QM status.

Over the past two years, PHH has sold off large chunks of its MSR portfolio, while remaining as the subservicer of record…

The ruling is a huge win for the mortgage industry, said former CFPB attorney Benjamin Olson, now a partner at the Buckley Sandler law firm…