Republicans have never been big fans of the GSEs and there’s plenty of Democrats who aren’t so sure about the government “guaranty” as well...

In a statement, Rep. Hensarling decried last year’s $1.7 billion “taxpayer-funded bailout” of the FHA.

Although Wells Fargo officially exited the broker market two years ago, it apparently still does a tiny amount of business through the channel.

According to Citadel’s website, it offers five different loan matrices, which have credit grades ranging from A down to C.

So, which groups are behind the "housing-industrial complex"? DeMarco isn't naming names...

The FHA’s annual independent actuarial review of the MMIF showed a capital reserve of 0.41 percent at Sept. 30, 2014.

And there could be some good news on lower LLPAs. Fannie said that come May 2015, it will change how it treats loans where there are two or more borrowers...

Mortgage-banking income reported by a diverse group of 33 lenders fell 16.0 percent from the second quarter of 2014 to the third, according to a new analysis by Inside Mortgage Trends. The 33 publicly traded companies, which include most of the top originators and servicers in the industry, had a combined $3.547 billion in net mortgage banking income during the third quarter. That was only 12.0 percent above the dreary $3.166 billion the group earned during the first three months of 2014, which was one of the industry’s least profitable quarters ever. The tepid third-quarter results came at a time when origination volume was unexpectedly strong – up 36.7 percent from the first quarter of 2014 – and many lenders have put ...

Freedom Mortgage recently broke into the top 10 ranking of mortgage originators and doesn’t look to be stopping there. Through the first nine months of 2014, Freedom produced $16.4 billion in originations, a 28.5 percent increase over the same period last year. That’s a huge increase at a time when overall mortgage origination volume dropped a whopping 44.2 percent. Last week, Freedom announced a deal to acquire Continental Home Loans, a retail lender focused on the New York metro market. Freedom officials said the deal, structured as an asset acquisition transaction, will boost its monthly production volume to $2 billion. That would raise the firm a notch or two in the rankings. Beefing up its retail presence was one reason ...

Mortgage brokers and correspondents helped fuel the surge in agency mortgage-backed securities issuance during the third quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of loan-level MBS data. Correspondents originated 35.0 percent of the loans securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the third quarter, up slightly from the first two quarters of the year. Likewise, the share of broker originations edged up to 11.3 percent in the most recent three-month period.Wells Fargo ranked as the biggest seller of third-party originations during the first nine months of the year. The company pulled out of the broker market, although a few such loans trickled into agency MBS this year, but correspondents accounted ...