In another sign that the mortgage market continues to heal, consumer complaints to the CFPB about their residential mortgages continued to fall broadly during the first quarter and on an annual basis, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside the CFPB. The latest data from the bureau’s consumer complaint database show that total gripes about mortgages are down 6.7 percent from the fourth quarter, and off 4.1 percent from year-ago levels. Borrower kvetching about loan modification issues was even better, down 9.8 percent and 13.9 percent, respectively, for the two periods...

So, in other words, a consumer who’s having trouble making his/her mortgage payment soon will have to give Uncle Sam more money in taxes...

New surveys of potential first-time homebuyers suggest that many are delaying purchasing a home due to affordability issues and the accrual of non-mortgage debt. “In many cases, we found today’s buyers are taking a long-term view of homeownership,” said D. Steve Boland, consumer lending executive for Bank of America. “They want to purchase a home that will meet their future needs and understand that, in some cases, that will require saving more, waiting longer and ...

The transformation of the mortgage is continuing apace, as technology vendor Cloudvirga has brought to market its new intelligent Mortgage Platform (iMP), which it bills as the industry’s “first comprehensive digital mortgage platform, effectively alleviating the pain points, cost and time associated with the mortgage process.” The new platform combines three emerging trends in technology: cloud storage and security, digitization of images to useable data, and ...

Mortgages produced through lenders’ retail channels accounted for 60.2 percent of home loans securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first quarter of this year, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data. The retail share was up slightly from 59.9 percent for all of last year and 59.5 percent in the fourth quarter. Sales of retail-originated loans fell 3.9 percent from the previous period, the smallest ... [Includes one data chart]

Many non-agency MBS investors insist that they aren’t comfortable with the liability posed by TRID…

Some 59.6 percent of new issuance in the first quarter consisted of re-securitizations and deals backed by seasoned re-performing and nonperforming loans...

Trouble ahead for CFPB chief Richard Cordray? The judges asked: “What independent agencies now or historically have been headed by a single person…”

Meanwhile, BofA’s “legacy assets and servicing” unit lost $40 million in the first quarter of 2016.

Wells reported mortgage banking non-interest income of $1.6 billion for the first quarter, a $62 million decline from the prior period.