The chickens come home to roost: from 2008 through 2013, HUD increased the FHA’s annual mortgage insurance premium five times.

David Steckel of Bank of America said his institution has focused on capturing more of the customers who fit into the company’s credit box rather than making that box bigger.

Any refunds paid by the originator must occur within 210 days after the loan is made.

To account for the risk posed by the small loan pool, Fitch applied a penalty of 1.07-times (a 7.0 percent penalty) to the lifetime default expectations for the MBS...

Interactive Mortgage Advisors has launched RealPartner.com, a crowd funding platform giving accredited investors access to performing residential mortgages...

The new jumbo security from JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to be issued on Oct. 30.

However, there was some good news. Flagstar reported residential originations of $7.19 billion, a 21 percent gain from 2Q.

We even heard one report that a non-QM firm is contemplating an initial public offering. It sounds crazy, we know…Meanwhile, it appears the states want a say in MSR transfers...

One mortgage executive added: “Watt is trying to do the right thing, but I’m not sure he will get there. It’s good to see the government admit that the pendulum went too far.”

Non-agency MBS sponsors will be allowed to retain the risk portion on vertical or horizontal tranches of the security or a combination of the two.