S&P focused on mortgages originated between the second half of 2005 and the first half of 2008.

Most of the companies are in decent shape, but the group is weighed down by two big albatrosses – Ocwen Financial and Walter Investment…

Servicing costs have risen dramatically this decade, but maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel…

At PHH, from 2014 to 2017, Minton held the title of senior vice president and chief information officer.

Provident noted that overcapacity is putting pressure on origination margins…

Over the past 12 months, 1.5 million borrowers have purchased a home using down payments below 10 percent…

Gen Xers on average favor making down payments of 20 percent, while Millennials tend to make down payments of 3 percent or less...

The second quarter of 2017 was not easy for publicly held nonbank mortgage lenders and servicers, but the beleaguered sector fared better than it did a year ago. A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of second-quarter earnings reports found the eight companies in the roundup managed to generate just $24.37 million in mortgage-banking income. That was down 80.1 percent from the group’s first-quarter earnings. One public nonbank, Stonegate Mortgage ... [Includes one data chart]

Mortgage lenders that sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac opened the credit box slightly for refinance borrowers during the second quarter, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data. Some 24.8 percent of refinance loans securitized by the two government-sponsored enterprises during the second quarter had credit scores below 700. That was up from 22.6 percent in the previous period and just ... [Includes two data charts]

The third quarter of any given year is usually among the strongest in terms of residential loan originations, but new employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that many mortgage lenders are being careful about hiring these days. Loan brokers on the other hand appear to a bit more liberal. But interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Trends over the past week suggest that plenty of nonbanks are continuing to search for help, especially firms that ...