Just because consumers might be off the hook for at least 90 days on making their payments, MBS investors will want their money, noted on observer…

ICBA’s comment marks the first time that a major industry trade group has questioned putting Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship…

Mortgage lenders harvested a landmark crop of purchase-money mortgages during the second quarter, fueled partly by continuing growth in the first-time buyer segment, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. An estimated $307.0 billion of purchase loans were originated in the second quarter, up a stunning 49.8 percent from the first three months of the year. That was the highest quarterly volume for purchase-mortgage lending since the third quarter of 2006. Purchase loans accounted for 67.5 percent of the estimated $455.0 billion in first-lien mortgage originations during the April-June cycle, the highest such share since at least 2003. First-time buyers contributed...[Includes three data tables]

The new security is backed solely by loans from Caliber...

Mortgages from 103 lenders will be included in the deal led by PrimeLending…

Investors Unite speaks for GSE shareholders – except senior preferred holders (the Treasury Department)…

As another hurricane approaches the U.S. more loan closings are cancelled...

Investors in non-QM MBS have to worry about fast prepayment speeds, not credit problems...

The nonprime mortgages were sourced through Lone Star affiliate Caliber Home Loans and other lenders…

The company hired industry veteran Joseph Boiano to oversee the new division…