Lenders generated $25.0 billion in home-equity loans during the third quarter of 2015, according to Inside Mortgage Finance estimates, a modest 4.2 percent increase at a time when first-lien originations were fading. Home-equity lending – including open-ended lines of credit and closed-end second liens – hit its highest volume since the second quarter of 2008. Crashing home prices and extremely cautious underwriting have drastically reduced new home-equity lending. There is...[Includes three data tables]

Among other things, the language grants the CFPB greater flexibility to treat a balloon loan as a “qualified mortgage” if it was extended by a community bank or...

One trade group rep noted that “anyone telling you” the TRID transition process “is somewhat smooth, is full of it.”

The IMF poll also found that some in the industry believe the MMIF minimum capital ratio should be raised to 4 percent...

The CHLA is renewing its call for Treasury and the FHFA to amend the preferred stock purchase agreements once again, allowing the GSEs to build capital...

“My lenders are keenly aware of meeting their FHA responsibilities,” Corso said in an interview with Inside Mortgage Finance…

Meanwhile, Wells Fargo was the top-ranked ARM lender through three quarters in 2015 with $18.83 billion funded. PHH Mortgage was a somewhat close second...

In the past, the duty to serve rule has received a great deal of attention from manufactured housing executives who argue the GSEs are not purchasing enough of their loans.

Private rights of action are not covered by the CFPB good faith language on TRID...

Fannie and Freddie have securitized roughly 80.8 percent of conventional-conforming mortgages over the first nine months of the year.