Mortgage and commercial real estate investment trusts stand to benefit from a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that offers individuals a 20 percent deduction for REIT dividends. Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said the deduction applies to “qualified business income,” which includes qualified dividends paid by REITs. The tax reform bill was signed into law on Dec. 22, 2017. Previously, non-capital gains dividends from a REIT were taxed as ...

Fact: Fannie and Freddie securitized more purchase-money mortgages in 2017 – $472.77 billion – than in any year since 2007.

Clayton reviewed 481 mortgages that are slated for securitization…

The delinquency rate on the MSR portfolio is 1.02 percent...

In late December, Quicken Loans sold roughly $1 billion worth of corporate debt through a pri-vate placement, agreeing to pay investors an attractive yield of 5.25 percent.

Although a final tally has yet to be issued, volume for the year could total nearly $9.3 billion…

Looks like Angel Oak, Caliber and Citadel Servicing Corp. are about to get some competition in the non-QM sector…

A $150.4 million deal from Angel Oak Capital Advisors issued in December 2015 had a cumulative net loss of just 0.02 percent…

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are the two dominant lenders in the jumbo market but their channel preferences have diverged over the past year…

Wells Fargo, Quicken, and United Wholesale Mortgage are the top three firms originating these low-downpayment loans…