Total gripes to the bureau slid 5.0 percent in the first quarter and were off 3.0 percent on an annual basis...

This so-called agency “patch” was set up to last for seven years, or until 2021...

CSS, a joint venture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is hiring at its main site in Bethesda, MD, as well as its office in Pasadena, CA.

At yearend, Cenlar ranked first in subservicing contracts...

The link between loan sales and mortgage-banking income can be squishy…

Of course, just because five industry vets have issued a white paper, that doesn’t mean it can readily yield into legislation.

Although BLS reported declines, recent interviews conducted by IMFnews suggest that some nondepositories are in a hiring mode this spring, especially for retail loan officers.

Overall consumer complaints to the CFPB reached their lowest level in at least a year and a half, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside the CFPB. Total gripes to the bureau slid 5.0 percent in the first quarter and were off 3.0 percent on an annual basis, data from the CFPB consumer complaint database show. Kvetching about residential mortgages was down slightly more, falling 6.7 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, for those two time periods. In fact, mortgage-related belly-aching hasn’t been this low since the fourth quarter of 2013. The most dramatic change was seen in the prepaid card space, where criticisms plunged 73.3 percent in 1Q16. ... [with exclusive data chart] ...

U.S. Military Personnel Continue to Report Problems With Their Mortgages. Complaints to the CFPB from American military personnel about their mortgages rose 10 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to a recent report from the bureau. The good news for mortgage lenders is that total complaints about their operations – roughly 9,900 – were less than half of the total generated by debt collection practices, which came to about 20,500. ... FHFA Wants Public Input on National Mortgage Borrower Survey. The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking public comments about the American Survey of Mortgage Borrowers, an information collection effort otherwise known as the National Survey of Existing Mortgage Borrowers. ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased $127.7 billion of single-family loans last year that failed to meet the baseline qualified-mortgage standard set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a new analysis by Inside The GSEs. Under the agency’s ability to repay rule, the GSEs can ignore the restriction that qualified mortgages must have a debt-to-income ratio of 43 percent or less. This so-called agency “patch” was set up to last for seven years, or until 2021, as long as Fannie and Freddie remain in conservatorship or receivership. In other regards, such as the 30-year limit on maximum loan term and the prohibition on interest-only payments, the GSEs...