The dollar volume of low-score purchase loans increased by 29.8 percent from the second to the third quarter, while total GSE purchase business went up 23.6 percent.

Gone from the Senate, via retirement, is Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, a moderate Republican who was a proponent of reforming the secondary mortgage market…

United Wholesale Mortgage continues to hire...

S&P Global Ratings last week urged mortgage servicers to continue to follow the best practices established after the financial crisis, even as some federal regulators are adopting less assertive regulatory approaches. “While we believe the regulatory landscape has changed and that these actions offer some promising developments for servicers, this overture could still prelude some hurdles,” an S&P report said. “Since servicers have invested considerable capital ...

The first move expected is a possible lowering of GSE loan limits...

Several months ago, rumors began to surface that Pacific Union might be for sale...

Redwood CEO Chris Abate: “Our game plan in the third quarter was a bit unconventional – we ran an up-tempo offense, squarely in the face of mortgage market headwinds.”

About 41 percent of Impac's volume now entails non-QM lending...

UBS said the Department of Justice intends to file a civil complaint against the company relating to pre-crisis MBS issuance...

Increasingly worried about the liquidity of its largest nonbank issuer/servicers, Ginnie Mae is telling this select group of companies to come up with a plan to address what an agency spokesman characterized as “eventualities.” (Includes one data chart.)