The mega banked earned $133 million from home lending and servicing in the fourth quarter, a 35 percent decline from 3Q15.

For investors in mortgage stocks, the question becomes: Well, how much will these beaten-down eight come back?

A huge factor in the record-setting year was the 115.5 percent surge in refinance loans securitized in Ginnie MBS.

Should mortgage servicers begin to worry about residential delinquencies in such oil producing states as North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas?

Prime jumbo MBS issuance rebounded from a soft 2014 with $12.08 billion in issuance, a 25.4 percent gain.

Goldman actually entered the subprime MBS and financing game a bit late compared to some of its peers. At one point it even owned a small subprime lender.

Wells' lending performance stands in contrast to its closest JPMorgan Chase, which reported a 23.3 percent sequential decline in mortgage production for the period.

By now the word is out: Certain unnamed secondary market investors are turning away mortgages because of compliance errors, expressing the opinion they do not want to be on the “liability hook” for any origination errors under the new integrated disclosure rule known as TRID. The Mortgage Bankers Association recently singled out a jumbo investor that’s been rejecting 100 percent of the loans offered by originators. The trade group declined to identify the investor, but other ...

Angela Klein, an attorney with the law firm Morrison & Foerster, said her firm has been talking to mortgage lenders that use big data about the risk and how little guidance there is about it.

When’s the last time a regional or megabank bought a nonbank mortgage company? Wells Fargo? JPMorgan? BofA? Citigroup? Nope, none of them, that we can recall...