Increases in home prices have outpaced growth in income for first-time homebuyers, according to an analysis by Zillow.

The Nonprofit Alliance of Consumer Advocates focuses on helping borrowers that have mortgages owned by a servicer subject to the $25 billion national servicing settlement.

Credit Insurance Risk Transfer 2015-2 covers an $8.1 billion pool of mortgages with a maximum coverage of approximately $202.5 million provided by re-insurers.

Timeshare collateral has displayed consistent year-over-year improvement since 2012.

Although all 13 firms reported positive earnings on their origination and sales activity, many noted that production-related revenue did not keep pace...

It was the group’s lowest MBS portfolio valuation since the fourth quarter of 2011.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has overturned a 2014 district court ruling, reviving two government MBS lawsuits that were initially dismissed because they were filed past the state’s established time limit. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s separate lawsuits against RBS Securities Inc., on one hand, and against Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, were both filed on Aug. 17, 2012. The complaints alleged that the banks misled investors about the credit quality of the mortgage loans that backed $840 million in non-agency MBS. The district court’s decision to dismiss, however, turned on...

MGIC recently pointed to lenders using piggyback structures to avoid PMI as a potential headwind to future earnings...

The cover bids on some past Freddie NPL pools have been in the mid-70s to low 80s (on the dollar) as a percentage of the unpaid principal balance.