Fannie and Freddie are still worth less than social media darling Snap, but the gap is narrowing...

Among the top 30, LoanCare had the largest increase to its jumbo servicing portfolio…

Fairholme extolled the GSE’s massive fourth quarter profits of almost $10 billion, and called them “indispensable” to the mortgage insurance industry…

Perhaps, residential servicers should receive 33 basis points for servicing Fannie/Freddie loans, not 25 bps...

"You can't overload the human brain," said newly minted HUD secretary Ben Carson. And there was more...

Cowen notes: “…this latest flare up reinforces our view that Treasury is unlikely in 2017 to unilaterally change the profit sweep at Fannie and Freddie…”

Although Freedom is private, a few years back it launched a publicly traded REIT called Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment, which lately has been trading near its 52-week high.

Banc of California’s mortgage division generated $150 million a year in revenue…

Go figure: An "app" company called Snap that may never make a nickel is now worth more than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Most major jumbo servicers increased their portfolios in 2016, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. A group of 30 servicers handled an estimated $921.10 billion in jumbo mortgages as of the end of the year, up 8.7 percent from the end of 2015. Wells Fargo was the top jumbo servicer, with a $279.97 billion portfolio at yearend. While Wells steadily built up its jumbo servicing throughout the year, it lost some ... [Includes one data chart]