The jumbo market is heating up with offerings from both EverBank and MountainView.

The estimated $119 billion in purchase-mortgage originations during the first quarter was up 15 percent over the level at the same point in 2012.

The auction market for nonperforming mortgages is beginning to generate heat with prices rising nicely from last year.

Citigroup will pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac damages for the faulty MBS it sold to them but no one knows the cost of the settlement.

Banks and thrifts reported $7.7 billion in mortgage banking income during the first three months of 2013, a 16 percent jump from the previous quarter.

New bulk MSR packages continue to hit the market. Many of the new deals have low coupons and hardly any delinquencies.

A new bill to replace Fannie and Freddie with a single government guarantor is already being dismissed.

The Senate Banking Committee has yet to schedule a confirmation hearing for Mel Watt to head FHFA. Does this lack of action mean anything?

Bank investment in residential MBS fell 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013 to $1.562 trillion.

Come next year, Freddie Mac will assess lenders a fee of $7,500 if they fail to deliver mortgage loans with an aggregate principal balance of more than $5 million.