The authors noted that appraisals associated with management companies may be more prone to contract price confirmation and super-overvaluation.

In his preamble to the Congressional report, Mulvaney sums it up best, saying "many” members of Congress “disagree with my actions as Acting Director…”

The trick, though, is to convert that higher MSR value into cash…

The loans in Chase's new MBS have an average balance of $527,877.

Acquiring government-insured loans from correspondent lenders has been a huge part of the Ginnie Mae market in recent years…

Cowen & Co. recently updated its forecast on GSE reform passing this year, slashing the odds to just 10 percent.

The idea is to offer “a space where businesses can test innovative products and processes without risk of regulatory consequences,” according to the Mortgage Bankers Association…

Meanwhile, the servicing sector appears to be picking up a head of steam...

There was a significant increase in deliveries to the GSEs of home loans with high debt-to-income ratios during the second half of 2017, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac single-family mortgage-backed securities.The two GSEs securitized $52.90 billion of mortgages with DTI ratios ranging from 46 percent to 50 percent over the last six months of the year. That was up 72.6 percent from the first half of 2017, and the annual total was up 37.6 percent from 2016.

At yearend 2017, CoreLogic employed 5,900, a reduction of 400 full-timers over the previous 12 months...