Residential fundings by hard-money lender CALCAP Advisors are on the rise, a bright sign for the sector.

EverBank funded $2.9 billion of home mortgages in the first quarter, a bit below one estimate of $3.3 billion.

Bank of America earlier this year finally settled its long-running dispute with Fannie Mae over buyback demands, an agreement that may help open a window to the government-sponsored enterprise that has been limited to refinance loans. During the first quarter of 2013, BofA sold $6.52 billion of mortgages to Fannie – all of them refinance loans. The company hasn’t sold purchase-money mortgages to the GSE since early 2012, when the two broke off new transactions that didn’t involve refinancing of existing Fannie loans serviced by the bank. In fact, BofA only sold...

Standard and Poor's is fighting back against the federal government in its $5 billion MBS fraud case.

The non-agency/jumbo market cannot truly revive until Congress passes laws aiding transparency and decreasing risk to potential participants.

Stearns Lending, one of the fastest growing servicers in the U.S., has hired a new manager to help it with servicing acquisitions.

PennyMac once again posted strong earnings, but the REIT's correspondent purchases are beginning to slow somewhat.

The jumbo market is heating up, which means the price paid for whole loans is on the rise.

Modeling changes that have been proposed by insurance commissioners could increase loss forecasts and prompt sales of non-agency MBS.

Navy Federal, which is headquartered in one of the hottest housing markets in the nation, saw residential fundings almost double in the first quarter.