Keep in mind that Mel Watt’s term as Federal Housing Finance Agency director expires in January 2019...

Subservicers handle 19.0 percent of all homes mortgages in the U.S., Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Overall, there are 500,000 mortgage properties on the island, according to Black Knight…

So far, speculation regarding a change in the GSE dividend payment has been dead wrong, but there’s still time...

In the past, some in the mainstream media have referred to nonbank mortgage lenders as “shadow” lenders, a phrase that residential finance professionals find pejorative…

The Mortgage Bankers Association is projecting that more than 4,600 residential finance professionals will attend its annual convention in Denver next month.

To some, CFPB Director Richard Cordray does not sound like a candidate…

All of the uptick in seller buybacks came from Fannie, where repurchases surged 21.5 percent from the first to the second quarter.

Roughly 82 percent of the VA-backed mortgages are interest rate reduction refinance loans or IRRRLs.

An undisclosed number of mortgage servicers continue to drop the compliance ball, according to the latest supervisory highlights report from the CFPB, issued last week. “In recent exams, examiners found that one or more servicers received incomplete loss mitigation applications and pre-approved borrowers for short-term payment forbearance programs based on those applications,” the report noted. “However, the servicer(s) did not notify borrowers of their right to complete the application and did not separately request other information needed to evaluate for all the other loss mitigation options offered by the owner or assignee of the loan.” Also, as the modification program neared its end, and before the short-term payment forbearance period concluded, the servicer(s) failed to reach out to affected borrowers ...