Although Republicans likely have enough votes to force a multi-prong regulatory relief bill through both chambers, the White House remains opposed...

As one jumbo securitization officialtold Inside MBS & ABS: “Gain-on-sale margins have been okay, but no one is buying a new boat.”

Regulatory fears are driving the desire by some owners/CEOs to exit the mortgage business, but we’ve heard that refrain before.

In the years after the financial crisis, lenders have tried to limit the amount of repurchase demands from the government-sponsored enterprises by tightening underwriting requirements, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. The HFPC noted that the percentage of mortgages that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have put back to lenders due to violations of representations and warranties for originations in recent years ...

With the effective date of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s integrated disclosure rule now just weeks away, industry representatives are escalating the amount of compliance advice they are offering to real estate agents and lenders. This week, the Mortgage Bankers Association released a variety of materials to facilitate complete conformity with the bureau’s pending disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ...

Roughly $24.0 billion of home-equity lines-of-credit and second mortgages were originated during 2Q, up 23.1 percent from the first three months of the year.

Former Fannie executive Tim Rood, now chairman and founder of the Collingwood Group, said "the current posture by the administration is pretty indefensible.”

Besides Fidelity, other institutional investors have slashed their holdings in the company, fearing that its best days are behind it.

Many left-leaning politicians have complained that Wall Street executives got off the hook for the financial crisis...

Home-equity lending jumped to its strongest level in seven years during the second quarter of 2015, but most depository institutions continued to see declining balances in their home-equity portfolios, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis. An estimated $24.0 billion of home-equity lines-of-credit and second mortgages were originated during the second quarter, up 23.1 percent from the first three months of the year. It was the highest production level since the second quarter of 2008. Although the Federal Reserve won’t release an official figure for home-equity loans outstanding at the end of June until next week, call-report data suggest...[Includes three data tables]