The volume of purchase mortgage originations will increase in 2019 even though interest rates will be higher, according to industry economists. Purchase mortgage originations will be boosted to some extent by a rise in employment and wages along with demographic shifts.

The government charges, the “apples to apples” comparisons on refis shown to prospective customers by Village Capital’s LOs were flawed and had “inaccurate” results.

Carrington Mortgage is working on its first non-QM securitization...

In past downturns, large lenders and servicers were either sold outright or they joined forces with like-sized companies…

Some industry lobbyists believe the Senate Banking Committee hearing on GSE pilot programs will not be held this year at all.

Mulvaney has a reputation of being pro-business. Is it possible he might turn the name-change ship around to save American companies $300 million?

OCC examiners noted greater use of asset dissipation underwriting, a practice used to qualify borrowers using a “hypothetical income stream from their asset liquidation rather than debt-to-income ratios.”

Commitment levels are decent, but nonbanks just aren’t using the lines they’ve been granted.

When the measure was first introduced, one housing lobbyist quipped: “This is like someone laying on their death after drinking and sinning and finally realizing they need to get baptized. This is not being introduced for good political reasons.”

The report says that while running the agency, Mulvaney has “cherry-picked the law to promote his ideological agenda.”