Freddie Mac will send $746 million to the U.S. Treasury under the conservatorship plan that siphons off nearly all the government-sponsored enterprise’s net profit every quarter, but that’s not all the cash being milked from the GSE. During the first quarter of 2015, Freddie sent $219 million to Treasury under the 2011 law that squeezed the GSEs to pay for a continuation of a payroll tax cut for U.S. workers. The levy is 10 basis points of guaranty fee charged by Freddie and Fannie Mae, and it’s a steadily rising amount as a greater share of GSE business is subject to the charge. In the first quarter of last year, Freddie paid...

Nearly every firm tracked in the Inside Mortgage Finance Large Servicer Delinquency Index reported improvements in mortgage performance during the first quarter...

Among all FHA originators, Bank of America ranks eighth nationwide, based on January figures...

Deephaven's website boasts that it helps “aspiring” homeowners “purchase homes as soon as one day after foreclosure or short sale.”

As the TRID deadline approaches industry anxieties are getting stronger and more specific in nature.

On the plus side, the publicly traded nonbank funded $4.2 billion during Q1, a 16 percent sequential improvement.

“For VA, this is a significant change for the worse,” said Tom Popik, designer of the survey.

In the first quarter, Freddie Mac's net interest income rose on a sequential basis by a mere 2 percent to $3.647 billion.

Fannie Mae reported Tuesday that the GSE issued $10.4 billion of multifamily MBS in the first quarter of 2015, primarily through its delegated underwriting and servicing program.

Wells Fargo, top VA seller to Ginnie Mae, showed a modest 7.6 percent increase in Ginnie MBS issuances in the first quarter...