Just over $224 billion of mortgages to first-time homebuyers were included in agency MBS issued in 2014, according to figures compiled by IMF.

Other investment bankers who work the MSR market said declining interest rates and the “Ocwen” effect are hurting values.

Roughly 90 percent of the time, residential loan officers never see the end mortgage customer, according to several weeks’ worth of interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance. However, few in the industry think it’s a problem. “We have the technology not to see our applicants,” said Jim Picard, vice president of home loans for Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union. The technology that Picard and others refer to is...

“I see a lull in aspiring new talent,” recruiter Rick Glass told Inside Mortgage Trends.

Still, the four super-sized U.S. banks – those with more than $1 trillion in assets – continue to rank in the top five GSE sellers.

Meanwhile, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to get less of their business from their five biggest customers.

The 50 basis point cut in FHA premiums is spurring some firms, including Freedom Mortgage, to increase hiring.

Fannie's "Collateral Underwriter" will provide up to 20 comparables and appraisers will have to defend the comps they use...

Assisting DocMagic with its work on RESPA-TILA disclosures is Richard Horn, a former senior advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

At press time, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was at 1.80 percent, the lowest level since May 2013.