Investors that buy homes accounted for 15.2 percent of purchasers in September, based on a three-month moving average.

Due diligence vendor The StoneHill Group is in a hiring mode...

Yet, here’s loanDepot, a firm launched just five years ago by industry veteran Anthony Hsieh, filing its S-1 statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Consumer belly-aching about mortgage servicing is down, too, but not quite as much: 12.0 percent quarter-over-quarter and 2.5 percent year-over-year.

The reason for the forecast hike? Answer: a strong job market and more supply coming on the market.

In all likelihood, the FHA could be looking at more than $200 billion in total originations this year, Brian Chappelle predicted.

Jumbos accounted for 18.1 percent of total production in 2014, up from a 14.6 percent share the previous year.

The performance comes at a time when the agency increasingly seems concerned about the capital cushion of certain fast-growing nonbanks.

The announcement by Freddie Mac might be viewed as a sign that the GSEs are competing once again.

A new loan origination defects and remedies framework to reduce buybacks was released by the government-sponsored enterprises last week, and lenders who spoke with Inside MBS & ABS said it may not be groundbreaking, but it is a step in the right direction. Jeremy Potter, general counsel and chief compliance officer with Norcom Mortgage, said, “We were really happy with the outcome. It seems like the industry has been working with them and this is a good team effort.” He said...