“The other natural job would be as CFPB director,” the Cowen analyst continued. “That said, Hensarling has shown much greater interest in housing finance…”

In late December, Freddie will make its regular quarterly dividend payment to the U.S. Treasury, which holds its senior preferred shares. When it does, most of the $4.67 billion in net earnings will be swept into the general fund.

In the Chase MBS, 44.3 percent of the loans were originated by correspondents…

According to Inside Mortgage Finance, Nationstar is the nation’s fourth largest servicer based on June 30 figures.

You might say that in the end, Treasury cannot lose when it comes to the GSEs...

It’s Deephaven’s third nonprime MBS deal of the year…

Aggressive refinancing now occurs immediately after the six-month window has expired, as some of the activity may have shifted into the custom pool market…

In 2016, the overall denial rate for applications for jumbo mortgages was 18.6 percent.

The wording of the language-preference question first tells borrowers that their loan transaction is likely to be conducted in English but gives them the option of selecting one of six languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese…

Also, lender websites don’t seem to sway consumer choices very much…