Fairway Independent Mortgage ranked first among all FHA purchase lenders with $880.8 million in 1Q18...

Keefe Bruyette & Woods believes new PMIER rules could see the light of day shortly…

LendingTree founder and CEO Douglas Lebda took home total compensation of $59.6 million last year...

The tally: nonbanks grew their GSE business by 1.5 percent during the first five months of the year. Banks retrenched by 16.2 percent…

Ginnie Mae: “We are glad to work with industry participants to try to find workable solutions allowable by law.”

HUD Secretary Ben Carson has acknowledged the importance of FHA condo rules, particularly for millennials…

Once risk-layering appears and LTV ratios climb, then all bets are off...

“It’ll be more chaos if the president has to appoint another acting director," said one former CFPB official.

Originations of interest-only mortgages declined in the first quarter of 2018 among a group of prominent IO lenders, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. The 15 lenders originated an estimated $4.17 billion of IOs in the first quarter of 2018, down 24.9 percent from the previous quarter and down 17.4 percent from the first quarter of 2017. The drop in IO production was worse than the decline in total originations ... [Includes one data chart]

Originations of adjustable-rate mortgages declined in the first quarter of 2018 from the previous period, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. ARM production slowed even with a rise in interest rates, and the products don’t appear to be popular with borrowers seeking purchase mortgages. An estimated $44.0 billion of ARMs were originated in the first three months of the year, down 20.0 percent from the fourth ... [Includes one data chart]