The hiring news isn't all bad in mortgage banking: Skyline Home Loans is looking for loan officers and Highlands recently hired some top executives.

In general, mortgage-related earnings were strong at the nation's banks in the second quarter, but clearly earnings "leakage" is underway. And yes, gain-on-sale is starting to slip.

The higher MSR values are not surprising, but the level of these increases have some mortgage professionals scratching their heads.

Purchase money lending will increase in 2014 but overall originations could swoon, according to a revised forecast from Fannie Mae.

Some of the nation's largest home lenders are beginning to cut mortgage workers as refinancing applications swoon.

HUD thinks random sampling would help make post-endorsement reviews more efficient, but some legal advisors believe the cost is too great.

Not only are nonperforming residential mortgages being placed into new securities, but so are re-performing loans.

Fear and loathing in the mortgage job market? Movement Mortgage has let several mortgage workers go. Can looser underwriting standards save the day?

While new regulations have been costly for servicers to implement, they have helped improve borrower satisfaction, according to J.D. Power’s latest primary servicer satisfaction study. “The fact that satisfaction continues to increase seems to indicate that changes being made in response to these new regulations are having a positive impact on the experience of customers,” said Craig Martin, director of investment services at J.D. Power. He cited regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Negative home equity is not an important barrier for a homeowner to decide to move elsewhere for a better job, although underwater homeowners are probably more likely to move than borrowers with equity in their homes, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The study presents evidence debunking the theory that homes with underwater mortgages deter unemployed people from moving to get new jobs. The “lock-in” theory holds that unemployed people with negative equity could ...