Quicken Loans this month lost one of its biggest broker-partners, C2 Financial Corp., laying the blame on BRAWL, United Wholesale Mortgage and UWM’s CEO Mat Ishbia.

Celebrity Financial has several M&A irons in the fire...

Overall, California has 99,781 licensed and registered mortgage LOs, far more than any other state…

Fannie Mae came under heavy criticism from certain elected officials and affordable housing advocates for extending $1 billion in financing to Invitation Home Loans, an SFR operator that’s publicly traded.

Bright has been mentioned in housing and mortgage circles as a possible successor to FHFA Director Mel Watt.

Certain SFR operators have been criticized for gobbling up thousands of properties for corporate ownership, thus removing these units from the inventory of homes available for sale.

CALCAP is looking to expand into the Texas market…

Most of the month-to-month slump was at Freddie, where MBS production fell 8.9 percent from June.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors recently announced that all states and U.S. territories now use a single, common exam to assess mortgage loan originators. In the past, a mortgage license candidate would need to take the national exam and a separate test for each state license. Now, MLOs only need take a national test – the National SAFE MLO Test with Uniform State Content – to hold a license. State regulators started to test a uniform national exam five years ago ...

Grimes' resume also includes stints at Grant Thornton and Price Waterhouse Coopers...