Of the 21,100 complaints submitted by consumers in the region, 27 percent have been related to mortgages.

The sale of mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar should transfer by Nov. 1.

In addition to alternative credit scoring models and low downpayment products, panelists suggested more public/private partnerships are needed to create affordable housing communities.

The privately held Guild Mortgage, San Diego, said it funded $10.7 billion in home mortgages through the first nine months of 2015...

The privately held Quicken Loans was also the biggest originator of government-insured loans, accounting for 5.7 percent of the sector.

For all of 2015 Radian predicts that it will pay $700 million in net claims, but next year that figure could fall to as low as $400 million.

Over the past five quarters, Flagstar has unloaded $25.2 billion of residential servicing rights.

Meanwhile, the volume of securitized retail loans was down 3.6 percent from the second quarter.

However, in a final note on the companies, FBR analyst Paul Miller called PMMIT an “outperform,” while giving it a price target of $20…

Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the MBA, said the purchase market could keep growing right off the end of the forecast table.