Mel Watt has roughly eight more months in office, but already industry lobbyists and GSE watchers are playing “guess who the next FHFA director might be.”

There was a healthy flow of mortgage servicing rights during the first quarter of 2018, but it’s unclear whether this year will match the prodigious transaction volume recorded in 2017. Transfers of single-family agency servicing rights totaled an estimated $121.76 billion in the first three months of 2018, according to an exclusive Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae ... [Includes three data charts]

Wells Fargo ranked as the top purchase-mortgage lender in 2017 both in retail originations and production through third-party originators, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of survey data. The company relied more heavily on its correspondent platform last year, posting a 16.9 percent increase in purchase-mortgage acquisitions over its 2016 volume. On the retail side, Wells’ purchase-mortgage originations were down ... [Includes one data chart]

Production numbers were down sharply in nearly every category.

Radian's mortgage and real estate services division – which includes due diligence provider The Clayton Group – continues to struggle...

Don’t look now, but Ginnie Mae MBS outstanding is approaching the $2 trillion mark…

Crowl’s base pay for 2017 totaled $554,808 while Messina’s came to $485,962.

The senator disagreed with comments made earlier in the day by HUD Deputy Secretary Pam Patenaude, who said there aren’t enough legislative days left...

HomeStreet Bank, Seattle, revealed in its earnings statement this week that it chopped 86 full-time positions.

According to the CFPB’s annual report on consumer disputes, the bureau received roughly 37,300 mortgage complaints in 2017...