Most lenders are usually shy when asked whether they would like to go public. But not Better Mortgage, a barely one-year-old “digital” mortgage lender that could triple loan production this year to $1.5 billion. “Yes, we’d like to go public,” company founder and CEO Vishal Garg told Inside MortgageFinance. “This company should be owned by the public.” As for when, that’s a different matter. The last time a nonbank mortgage lender sold...

Freddie Mac is set to implement a waiver aimed at reducing lender anxiety about potential buybacks related to appraisal issues, matching a similar policy already implemented by Fannie Mae. The initiatives by the two government-sponsored enterprises are aimed at one of the last major bugaboos in the representations and warranties lenders take on when they sell loans. Lender repurchases have declined dramatically over the past few years as Fannie and Freddie cleaned up buyback disputes related to loans originated before the housing market collapse. In 2016, lender repurchases and other indemnifications fell...

The Fed owns roughly $1.7 trillion worth of agency MBS. But don’t expect any wholesale dumping to take place…

It appears the Trump White House is once again seriously considering Pam Patenaude to be the deputy HUD secretary...

With the purchase of Opes, Flagstar likely will move up two spots in the origination rankings to number 12, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

PHH Mortgage, which is restructuring its operations, was the top ranked interest-only lender in 2016…

Angel Oak employs 52 wholesale account executives and hopes to add three to four additional ones a month.

A former Utah appraiser said she lost her job to AVMs and now drives a bus for $40,000 a year...

Just two firms – Redwood Trust and JPMorgan Chase – continued to dominate jumbo issuance in the first quarter…

China still ranked second in agency MBS investment, but Japan’s larger portfolio of non-agency MBS and ABS boosted it to second place overall.