Net income per share at Redwood Trust increased in 2017 as the real estate investment trust put an emphasis on expanded-credit mortgages and is poised to further diversify its residential mortgage activities. The real estate investment trust estimated that its net income per share will fall somewhere in the range of $1.57 to $1.63 for 2017, up from $1.54 per share in 2016. The REIT added that its average return on equity will be in the range of 11.6 percent to 12.1 percent in 2017 compared with ...

Residential lenders funded $1.810 trillion of home mortgages in 2017, beating expectations…

The agency wants feedback on its “processes for initiating” investigations…

Growth was strongest in the wholesale-broker channel…

In total, 63 lenders contributed to the new MBS from Deephaven…

In November of last year, Capital One disclosed it would exit the mortgage business, which it entered eight years ago by purchasing Chevy Chase Bank.

CFPB's Mulvaney: “If the CFPB loses a court case because we pushed too hard, we simply move on to the next matter. But where do those that we have charged go to get their time, their money, or their good names back?”

Chase Home Finance still held second place in the GSE servicing arena, though its portfolio has been shrinking slightly…

Ocwen is trying to put its regulatory problems in the rearview, while focusing on being a subservicer…

Flagstar's serviced-for-others portfolio increased to 442,000 loans from 415,000 in 3Q17, but a large chunk of that represents subservicing arrangements.