Although HARP originations plunged by 76 percent last year, the FHFA may keep the program alive.

Glenview is bullish on Ocwen but it also owns a large stake in the nonbank...

A bill to replace the Federal Housing Finance Agency with a beefed up Ginnie Mae and set Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on a path to liquidation has been reintroduced in the House. The Partnership to Strengthen Homeownership Act was first introduced in July 2014 to wind down Fannie and Freddie over a five-year timeframe. Reps. John Delaney, D-MD, John Carney, D-DE, and Jim Himes, D-CT, are the lead sponsors of the measure. They said the bill takes the best ideas from both parties to create a housing finance system that combines the strengths of the private and public sectors.The congressmen agreed that things need to be done differently.

Mortgages with credit scores exceeding 740 continued to dominate the conventional conforming market in 2014, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year. High-score borrowers accounted for 62.0 percent of loans securitized through the two government-sponsored enterprises in 2014. They accounted for an even bigger 66.2 percent of purchase-mortgages loans ... [Includes one data chart]

Impac said it will originate more than $2.0 billion of all mortgages in 1Q15, almost double what it produced the previous quarter.

The bill would exclude from the calculation insurance and taxes held in escrow and fees paid to affiliated companies...

How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.

Fannie Mae is still the most prolific author of single-family MBS, accounting for 46.6 percent of agency MBS outstanding at Dec. 31.

Fannie and Freddie don't get out of bed in the morning without first talking to the FHFA. (Then again, the two are in conservatorship.)

Although RoundPoint isn’t taking any questions regarding a possible sale of the company, it recently published a statement regarding its co-issuance and subservicing businesses.