Prospect Mortgage is the top contributor with a 9.1 percent share, followed by Ditech Mortgage (8.6 percent) and Skyline Financial (7.1 percent). All three are nonbanks.

Last year, the mortgage industry cautioned HUD against assessing a fee to fund certain risk management improvements in the FHA program.

Any monkeying with the GSE charters must get past two of the most powerful lobbying groups in all of housing finance...

DocMagic would like to double its nationwide sales staff to 20 by the time 2015 ends.

The firm noted that employment and income fraud peaked in the fourth quarter of 2013 and has declined ever since.

In some cases, loan officers who work for net branch operators can earn 225 to 250 bps per deal.

Roughly $164.77 billion of securities backed by commercial mortgages were issued last year, down just 0.6 percent from 2013, which was a banner year.

The money will flow directly into the U.S. Treasury Department, which controls the senior preferred shares of the two government-sponsored enterprises.

The DBO request for proposal asks that applicants for the Ocwen contract state whether they – or any affiliates – have done any consulting work for the servicer.

An official involved in the non-agency MBS market said it’s easier to sell private placements than it is to meet requirements for publicly registered deals