Among other things, Icahn mentions a "changing and potentially punitive regulatory framework..."

During the third quarter, the top 25 lenders accounted for 58.3 percent of total originations.

The privately held Guild Mortgage, San Diego, said it funded $10.7 billion in home mortgages through the first nine months of 2015...

In addition to alternative credit scoring models and low downpayment products, panelists suggested more public/private partnerships are needed to create affordable housing communities.

Of the 21,100 complaints submitted by consumers in the region, 27 percent have been related to mortgages.

The sale of mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar should transfer by Nov. 1.

However, in a final note on the companies, FBR analyst Paul Miller called PMMIT an “outperform,” while giving it a price target of $20…

Over the past five quarters, Flagstar has unloaded $25.2 billion of residential servicing rights.

Meanwhile, the volume of securitized retail loans was down 3.6 percent from the second quarter.

The privately held Quicken Loans was also the biggest originator of government-insured loans, accounting for 5.7 percent of the sector.