Bank of America led all residential firms in cumulative mortgage complaints: 23,004 at the end of September. Wells Fargo was a distant second with 12,261.

If the case settles, it would be the second time in two years that a case involving disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act has settled before the Supreme Court had an opportunity to hear arguments.

FBR Capital Markets believes that smaller shops are not being counted in new estimates on loan production.

Big banks were the five largest jumbo originators last year, with Bank of America ranking second followed by JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and U.S. Bank.

Financial industry trade groups want all Title II forward mortgage loans that meet FHA requirements to be treated as “safe harbor” qualified mortgage loans instead of being lumped in either of two QM buckets as proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Commenting on HUD’s proposed definition of a “qualified mortgage,” the industry groups – Mortgage Bankers Association, Consumer Bankers Association, Consumer Mortgage Coalition, American Bankers Association, and the Independent Community Bankers of America – urged HUD to ...

Establishing a higher, mandatory capital reserve requirement for the FHA under the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act, or PATH Act, would help reduce discretionary spending over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. According to CBO estimates, implementing the legislation would result in a net decrease in discretionary spending of $41.2 billion over the 2014-2023 period. This assumes future appropriations laws are enacted to implement the act’s provisions. The potential reduction in government spending would stem from ...

FHA jumbo loan originations continued their quarterly fluctuations as production in the second quarter of 2013 slipped after a good run in the previous quarter, according to Inside FHA Lending’s analysis of FHA data. Volume fell 1.5 percent from the first quarter, during which the FHA posted $5.36 billion in jumbo mortgage originations. The first quarter number broke a declining production trend that began in the second quarter of last year when FHA reported $6.27 billion in jumbo lending. FHA lenders produced a total of $10.8 billion in new jumbo loans in the first half of 2013, down 2.7 percent from ... [2 charts]

Among the nation’s top five lenders in 3Q, Quicken suffered the largest volume decline on a sequential basis. Wells Fargo was a close second.

SunTrust is about to leave the wholesale/broker channel. Who's next?

Mortgage professionals should hang onto their hats. Loan production could plunge by 32 percent in 2014.