Community bankers want to make sure they have access to the secondary mortgage market – including the ability to retain servicing rights – when the dust settles from housing-finance reform. The Independent Community Bankers of America and National Association of Federally Insured Credit Unions were among those that testified at a House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing this week. Representing ICBA, Sam Vallandingham, president and CEO of ...

CoreLogic also will provide fair-market list prices to HUD…

Among the standouts in terms of lending growth were Freedom Mortgage, Caliber Home Loans, United Wholesale, and Home Point Financial, Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Mortgage servicing-related gripes fell 26.3 percent in the third quarter…

The megabanks shed a combined $48.75 billion of GSE servicing during the third quarter…

Flagstar’s origination business was aided, in part, by its acquisition earlier this year of Opes Advisors...

It was thought that Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest nonbank funder, might follow loanDepot’s lead and enter the arena, but so far no...

Although Walter will file for bankruptcy, Ditech Financial LLC and Reverse Mortgage Solutions will not...

A little over two years ago, nonbank mortgage giant loanDepot unveiled a second-lien lending program, paving the way for some of its peers to enter the space. But so far, few have stuck their toe in the water. Moreover, it doesn’t seem as though loanDepot is exactly lighting the world on fire with the product, but that could change in the quarters ahead, especially if rates rise and consumers opt to tap equity by taking out a second. loanDepot declined to talk about its program and ...

For the nonbanks, the bellwethers to watch will be Quicken Loans, Freedom, loanDepot and United Wholesale…