The share of non-homeowners that expect to purchase a home in the foreseeable future is down significantly compared with two years ago, according to a new poll by Gallup. However, a survey commissioned by JPMorgan Chase suggests that potential homebuyers are ready to “get off the sidelines” before interest rates increase. In April 2013, Gallup found that 31 percent of non-homeowners didn’t expect to purchase a home in the foreseeable future. In a survey conducted this month, the share of non-homeowners that don’t expect to buy a house in the foreseeable future increased to 41 percent. Art Swift, managing editor at Gallup, noted...

It’s likely that provisions to automatically designate residential loans held in portfolio as qualified mortgages will be included in a legislative package...

Blackstone, without fanfare, purchased Gateway Funding in Horsham, PA. More deals are in the works...

Nationstar will take title to $6.7 billion of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private investor product owned by EverBank...

More than half of Flagstar's servicing portfolio consists of subservicing contracts.

The megabanks still report broker production in their loan sales figures, but most of the activity involves seasoned loans.

HomeStreet funded $1.61 billion of new originations in the first quarter of 2015, a 21 percent improvement from the previous quarter.

Quicken made news earlier in the year when it heavily promoted to loan brokers a 60-hour LPMI “sale” committing coverage for $100 million in originations.

Recruiter Rick Glass said the thirst to hire high-caliber mortgage COOs is coming from lenders that “want to move to the next level.”

Another post-crisis trend is that the volume of Fannie’s multifamily financing had shrunk more than Freddie’s...