Mortgages originated in recent years for investment properties have performed well, helped by improvements to underwriting standards after the financial crisis, although there are concerns about underwriting practices in the non-agency market.

Despite heralding the investment made by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Guaranteed Rate will not say how much the PE firm invested or how large of a stake it acquired…

Do federal deficits even matter anymore? Jeff Gundlach thinks so...

Mark Stafford, managing director of MS Capital Advisors: “Margin compression is real and many companies lost money in the first quarter.”

Fannie Mae: “We expect this will prompt businesses to turn to cost-cutting..."

By comparison, commercial banks must have tier 1 capital of 8.0 percent of risk-weighted assets.

JMP likes the higher profit margins that accompany non-QM lending…

Banks have been reducing their servicing for others since late 2009…

The AAF warns against the GSEs becoming private entities again, noting there’s no way for them to raise enough capital…

Consultant Joe Garrett: "Salesmen don’t get paid less just because the company didn’t do well..."