Home prices in 2016 soared as a number of metropolitan areas reached record new home price highs, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ yearend report on home sales. Among 201 metropolitan statistical areas with populations of at least 200,000, 44 percent hit new all-time home price peaks last year. Those areas include Dallas-Fort Worth ($230,571), Houston ($214,795), Atlanta ($181,000), Boston ($390,000) and San Francisco ($720,000). Three Ohio markets, Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, also reached...

The CFPB said Prospect Mortgage entered into agreements to buy leads from more than 200 different counterparties, most of which were real estate brokers.

CMG Mortgage founder and CEO Chris George said that when it comes to hiring he's mostly in a "holding pattern" right now, with exceptions...

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Over the past two years, the Wall Street giant has purchased a handful of nonbank lenders, including Gateway Funding...

The assessment matches the rating service’s “grade” on Caliber Home Loans, which issued the first AAA-rated nonprime MBS backed by new originations.

Correspondent lending accounts for 21.4 percent of Stearns’ total origination volume, based on fourth quarter figures from Inside Mortgage Finance…

Dave Akre, who runs Whole Loan Capital, noted, “How can they stay in the mortgage origination business when servicing is a huge part of the borrower experience?”

PHH Corp., for years, has been trying to unload its entire mortgage franchise, a process complicated by both regulatory sanctions and large accounting losses tied to declining interest rates.

PFSI is forecasting that by the second half of 2017 it will be originating $40 million to $60 million per quarter in multifamily loans.