If Fannie Mae's origination forecast comes true, just $615 billion in loans will be written from July 1 to Dec. 31, an ugly outlook indeed…

Among the top 10 companies in the complaint database, two mortgage servicers showed improved performance: Ocwen and Nationstar.

Effective Oct. 1, 2015, the upfront g-fee for USDA purchase and refinance loans will be raised to 2.75 percent from 2.00 percent.

A quick check of rates this morning found that firms such as Sebonic and Aurora Financial were offering 30-year fixed-rate loans at 3.75 percent with no points.

The borrower listed his cellphone number on the loan modification documents, but then defaulted.

MBS Managing Partner Chuck Klein said the company in question owns at least $3 billion in mortgage servicing rights...

The results are based on 354 lenders that submitted production data to the trade group.

Stearns Lending has been on the auction block for well over a year, maybe longer...

Dan Perl, who runs Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, said he woke up Monday morning and immediately cut his rates by 25 basis points across the board.

Securitization industry participants raised concerns after an appeals court last week refused to hear an appeal of an earlier ruling that reversed the long-held federal preemption that nonbanks have relied on to keep securitized loans exempt from state usury laws. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the appeal of Madden v. Midland Funding last week. No explanation was provided with the denial. The appeal was supported by the Structured Finance Industry Group and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, among others. SFIG said...