It's that time of the season: MBS issuance was down 30.6 percent at Fannie and off 17.4 percent at Freddie.

Sky high housing costs in the Bay Area prompts one lender to roll out a $2 million jumbo loan, no money down...

PE firms and hedge funds are showing a strong interest in the emerging class of subprime residential lenders...

The trade group’s profitability calculation is based on average production volume of $614 million per company in the third quarter.

Time to rejoice: purchase-lending could regularly top $1 trillion a year...

According to its website, Movement Mortgage also seeks to hire underwriters, a mortgage licensing specialist and an associate general counsel.

Stonegate Mortgage is the top contributor to the deal with a 32.3 percent share, followed by Prime Lending with a 21.6 percent share...

What year-end slow down? Michigan Mortgage is searching for 14 new employees for ten of its 28 locations. A majority of the jobs are for loan officers and underwriter positions...

However, the note rate was not disclosed. The originator of record is Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital...

The refinance market was soft as well. The agencies securitized $37.48 billion of refinance loans during November, down 12.3 percent from the previous month.