For such assignees, the bureau would select one of the following alternative periods for the right to cure: 270 days after loan delivery, or 120 days after such assignee’s discovery of non-compliance.

Will a coming boom in the production of non-qualified mortgages help residential lenders survive the origination slump?

Sen. Shelby is an Alabama Republican with a populist streak who is no friend of the GSEs, but he may side with shareholders of the two companies who are getting shafted by Treasury “sweeps.”

To participate in the MSR market, institutional investors must partner with licensed and compliant servicers.

In case you haven’t noticed, many mortgage stocks are trading much closer to their 52-week lows than their highs.

The Treasury Department will hold meetings with issuers of non-agency MBS in the coming months to pick their brains on how the government can assist in uncovering "new paths" to increase private investment.

While jumbo mortgage securitization is currently attractive to issuers, industry analysts suggest that volume will remain limited this year due to a number of factors.

The home-equity origination market rebounded somewhat during 2013, but none of these loans are winding up in new securities.

The jumbo MBS market sprung to life this month, just before the close of the second quarter. Three firms are scheduled to issue jumbo MBS at the end of this week, and the market’s biggest player, Redwood Trust, is close to its first new issuance since pricing a deal at the end of March. While jumbo mortgage securitization is currently attractive to issuers, industry analysts suggest that volume will remain limited this year due to a number of factors, including a lack of strong demand from a wide range of investors, incentives for banks to hold jumbos in portfolio and continued dominance by the government-sponsored enterprises. “I think issuance will remain...

Over the past few months, at least $407 million of re-performing residential mortgages have been auctioned off in the secondary market, according to a recent tally from Mountain View Capital Group, Denver. As for how many of these loans will wind up in an MBS, that’s a different matter. DBRS has rated what it calls 15 “seasoned” loan programs since 2009, only four of which it considers to be re-performing. But according to DBRS Managing Director of Structured Finance Quincy Tang, “There’s certainly no shortage of re-performing collateral in the market.” In other words, despite the improvement in the housing market, there are...