Redwood Trust is coming to the jumbo well once again. Its new MBS is roughly $577 million in size.

A new Supreme Court opinion may force the SEC to speed up its investigation of certain MBS fraud cases.

When residential originations thrive, so does the warehouse lending sector, and 2012 was no exception.

Fannie Mae is working on changes that may give some mortgage bankers relief on buybacks.

Wall Street executives involved in MBS fraud may not be off the hook quite yet.

Redwood Trust taps the debt market for cash to support its jumbo MBS business.

Due diligence provider Allonhill LLC loses its CEO Diana Mead.

An estimated $203 billion in non-agency jumbo mortgages were originated in 2012, according to a new tally from Inside Mortgage Finance.

Banks with major Ginnie Mae portfolios – and even smaller firms – increased their purchases of delinquent mortgages out of MBS pools in the fourth quarter compared to the third as a way to save money and refinance troubled loans. According to an analysis by Inside FHA Lending, the top 50 Ginnie Mae issuers bought $12.65 billion of problem loans out trusts in fourth quarter compared to $11.17 billion in the third, an increase of 13 percent. “Once you buy the loan it goes into your portfolio,” said Tim Rood, a partner in The Collingwood Group, a Washington-based advisory firm. “You can try to re-perform it and then re-securitize it,” he said. Wells Fargo, the largest Ginnie Mae servicer in the nation with a portfolio of $412 billion, purchased ... [1 chart]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it will share information soon on the estimated impact of mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts on HUD/FHA programs and their recipients. A HUD spokesman declined to put a sequestration tag on all affected programs, including FHA, saying details would be available as soon as the department notifies all HUD funding recipients of automatic spending cuts that went into effect last week. The mandatory cuts to defense and discretionary spending kicked in after Congress failed to enact a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years, as required by ...