Meanwhile, a dozen or so mortgage, housing and consumer groups are putting the final touches on a new letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin...

Loans originated in the retail channel and delivered into agency mortgage-backed securities continued to show a lower risk profile than mortgages acquired from correspondent originators or funded through mortgage brokers, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of MBS data. The average credit score for retail originations was 727.27 in second-quarter agency MBS, 6.47 points higher than the average for correspondent loans and ... [Includes two data charts]

Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac, said some prospective homebuyers didn’t complete transactions this summer due to a limited supply of homes for sale…

Angel Oak and Citadel Servicing, two of the larger originators of expanded-credit products, each increased production by more than 30.0 percent from the first to the second quarter.

MBA listed compensation for “current officers, directors, trustees and key employees” at $6.0 million for fiscal year 2017. It was $7.1 million the year prior…

Origination capacity in the mortgage industry remains “elevated,” according to a new report from PiperJaffray.

In fact, bank ABS investment began to taper off at about the same time the supply of ABS outstanding began to grow again.

CBO projects that under current law, the share of new single-family mortgages guaranteed or held by Fannie and Freddie will slowly recede…

Personnel expenses averaged $5,195 per loan in the second quarter, down $704 from 1Q18…

But Wells Fargo dominated in the correspondent channel with a 20.9 percent market share...