The Mt. Laurel, NJ-based Freedom is eager to grow its retail presence in the U.S., but is still committed to third-party lending where it has a large presence.

When pressed further, Middleman noted that getting acquisitions approved in the Empire State can “take a long time”…

BB&T posted $80 million of mortgage banking net income in the third quarter, up sharply from a negative $21 million suffered in the previous quarter.

If housing markets are stronger than expected and rates stay low enough, originations could hit $1.421 trillion next year.

A recent research note from Sterne Agee predicts higher operating costs for Ocwen because of its ongoing regulatory disputes with the New York Department of Financial Services.

With Continental Home Loan under its umbrella, Freedom believes its production run-rate will be $2 billion a month.

An administrative solution is already possible within the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which grants the FHFA authority to bring the GSEs out of conservatorship.

The privately held Mortgage Master is on track to originate $5 billion this year, all of it through the retail channel.

Non-agency issuers produced $32.16 billion of new commercial MBS, a 40 percent increase from the second quarter.

The new net worth and liquidity requirements and other policy changes announced by Ginnie Mae last week should be viewed in light of the agency’s increased servicer risk stemming from a “new breed” of entities that have entered the market in the wake of the financial crisis, according to analysts. The sharp increase in the share of non-bank servicers has significantly altered Ginnie Mae’s risk exposure to servicer issues, noted analysts at Barclays. “Specifically, the liquidity and capitalization of these non-bank servicers, which are not subject to such requirements for bank servicers, leaves Ginnie Mae exposed to servicing disruptions,” they said. In 2015, Ginnie Mae will adjust...