As press time, details were sketchy, but lobbyists who claim to have knowledge of the draft caution there are several “different pieces” to the measure...

In the broker channel, United Wholesale Mortgage once again dominated…

Freddie officials stated that the GSE continued to incur market-adjusted pricing costs in the form of lower MBS guarantee fees.

This most-risky bucket accounted for just 2.6 percent of refi business in the third quarter...

Tech vendors believe that home lenders are seeing dramatic benefits from automating their secondary marketing operations…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set aside a combined $1.9 billion to cover potential losses to MBS collateral from the powerful hurricanes that slammed the U.S. and its territories this fall. Ginnie Mae, meanwhile, hasn’t issued an update on affected loans in several weeks, but the government guarantor is trying to stay optimistic.

A major changing of the guard is now afoot in the mortgage industry...

Real estate mortgage investment trusts continued to build up their agency MBS investment port-folios during the third quarter, though most REITs had a more difficult time in the less-liquid non-agency MBS market.

Three analysts at Wells Fargo Securities discussed in a new report this week what could happen to the agency MBS market as a result of pending tax reform, one version of which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives this week. As always, the devil is in the details; hence, the bitter in-fighting among entrenched interests on Capitol Hill.

Self-employed borrowers whose incomes were determined with bank statements account for 35.0 percent of the collateral.