S&P Global Ratings upgraded servicer ratings for Ocwen Loan Servicing to average from below average this week. Ocwen’s stock price increased significantly after the upgrade because of ratings clauses in Ocwen’s subservicing agreements with New Residential Investment. S&P downgraded Ocwen’s servicer ratings in June 2015 and if the ratings weren’t raised by April 2017, New Residential could transfer the subservicing to a different company. As of the end of ...

The GSEs have reduced their holdings of subprime MBS to just $17.5 billion.

The $1.5 billion offered by MIAC has an average interest rate of 4.22 percent and delinquencies of 2.65 percent.

Lenders originated home loans that included primary mortgage insurance at a hectic pace during the second quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis. A whopping $196.23 billion of new mortgage originations carried private MI during the second quarter, including significant increases in both private MI and government-insured mortgage insurance. That was up 34.1 percent from the first three months of 2016, and represented the biggest quarterly total on record. Private MI posted...[Includes three data tables]

The share of refi loans with scores of 740 or higher edged up from 57.8 percent in the first quarter to 61.6 percent in the second.

The fear is that loan pricing will be worse and loan-to-value ratios will be more restrictive.

UWM is beginning to see some of its competitors pick up their game...

Of the two GSEs, Freddie Mac had the bigger monthly increase at 17.1 percent…

Redwood is working to increase investments in first-loss risk on loan pools delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The 22 regional banks fared a lot better, reporting a combined $903.5 million of mortgage-banking income…