Four mortgages from First Republic Bank were subject to limited reviews that didn’t include checks for compliance with TRID.

Fairholme extolled the GSE’s massive fourth quarter profits of almost $10 billion, and called them “indispensable” to the mortgage insurance industry…

"You can't overload the human brain," said newly minted HUD secretary Ben Carson. And there was more...

Just three depositories ranked among the top 15 issuers for February…

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said there’s still plenty of demand for home equity loans and cash-out refis but…

Redwood officials note that in recent months pricing for jumbo MBS has been stronger than the bid for whole loan sales…

Cowen notes: “…this latest flare up reinforces our view that Treasury is unlikely in 2017 to unilaterally change the profit sweep at Fannie and Freddie…”

Banc of California’s mortgage division generated $150 million a year in revenue…

Ginnie Mae production fell substantially in February from January as the government-insured lending market continued to lose steam in the first quarter of 2017. Ginnie mortgage-backed securities issuance fell 24.0 percent from January as fewer purchase and refinance loans were pooled for securitization, bringing February’s total issuance to just $32.2 billion. Year-over-year Ginnie MBS issuance, on the other hand, increased by 6.2 percent. The government-insured market set an all-time record of $545.0 billion in originations during 2016, a whopping 31.0 percent jump from the previous year. That total eclipsed previous records for originations of FHA, VA and rural housing loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to data compiled by affiliate Inside Mortgage Finance. In addition, government-insured lending accounted for a record ... [ 3 charts ]

Issuance of non-agency MBS backed by new originations continues to be limited…