Industry participants largely support a plan from the Federal Housing Finance Agency to tie adjustments of the conforming loan limits to the FHFA’s “expanded data” House Price Index. The extent to which conforming loan limits should be adjusted, however, remains a topic subject to debate. In May, the FHFA noted that home prices were close to recovering from the aftermath of the financial crisis, which could prompt an increase to the conforming loan limit. The $417,000 conforming loan limit took effect in 2006 and the FHFA was prevented from reducing the limit by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The FHFA proposed...

In particular, Wells said it would “withdraw from mortgage marketing services and desk rental agreements with real estate firms, builders and certain other referral sources.”

Purchase mortgages accounted for 58 percent of EverBank's originations in the second quarter.

At least five lenders are currently delivering jumbo ARMs to Hatteras on a flow basis.

The regulator determined that consumers were lured with deceptive promises of savings and misled about when their payments would be applied.

Are more lenders considering selling their companies because of large potential fines they’re facing from the CFPB and HUD?

Lykken said he wants to transform "one company at a time."

“The question was a surprise to many investors and resulted in clients questioning whether a CFPB crackdown in the timeshare market was ahead,” writes Compass Point analyst Isaac Boltansky…

Among the top 10 contributors to jumbo MBS through two quarters this year, half were banks or associated with banks.

The lender could not provide any volume figures, but Logemann said one in 10 inquiries she receives “has some element” of a consumer who has gone through a foreclosure or short sale