Late this week we were hearing reports about one mortgage cooperative that was trying to strike a deal with one of the GSEs regarding pricing breaks for its members...

The first report from the National Mortgage Database offers some details on borrowers with large loans beyond the data included in the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The NMDB includes information from surveys administered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The federal regulators survey about 6,000 new borrowers on a quarterly basis, accounting for about 0.4 percent of the population of new mortgage originations ...

The residential servicing market is a slow-changing glacier…

FHFA chief Mel Watt also points out that the sale of Fannie’s existing properties will result “in substantial additional financial benefits.”

Eventually, Fannie Mae will sell its historic HQ site at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, DC, and making a killing on the sale...

Performance in Chase’s jumbo program has remained strong even with the lender loosening underwriting standards somewhat...

It was the ninth consecutive quarterly decline in bank ABS investment since the end of 2013…

One trend that appears to be gaining momentum is the increased use of call centers and loan officers working at such shops who are compensated at lower commission rates…

MBA President Dave Stevens told IMFnews: “We respect the work of Glen [Corso, CMLA director] and his organization greatly...."

Lenders reported a moderate net easing of credit standards across all loan types over the past three months, according to Fannie Mae’s second quarter 2016 Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey released this week.