In the first quarter, the top sequential gainers were all nonbanks: loanDepot (up 50.6 percent), Caliber Home Loans (46.2 percent) and Stearns Lending (22.6 percent.)

Freddie Mac securitized just $12 million of purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios of 96 percent or 97 percent during the first quarter.

The number of branch licenses for mortgage originators increased by 12 percent to 43,381.

Few in the industry believe Quicken will actually bolt the FHA program, noting that similar saber-rattling was done by JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon last year...

Blackstone, without fanfare, purchased Gateway Funding in Horsham, PA. More deals are in the works...

Nationstar will take title to $6.7 billion of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private investor product owned by EverBank...

It’s likely that provisions to automatically designate residential loans held in portfolio as qualified mortgages will be included in a legislative package...

Another post-crisis trend is that the volume of Fannie’s multifamily financing had shrunk more than Freddie’s...

Recruiter Rick Glass said the thirst to hire high-caliber mortgage COOs is coming from lenders that “want to move to the next level.”

HomeStreet funded $1.61 billion of new originations in the first quarter of 2015, a 21 percent improvement from the previous quarter.