Rumors of a large layoff at Redwood first broke Monday...

Jumbo MBS issuers are not required to identify lenders that contribute less than 5.0 percent of the loans to any particular deal.

Where Realtors were once the first source of information for homebuyers, increasingly independent mortgage lenders are attempting to provide leads on homes for sale and more...

The mega banked earned $133 million from home lending and servicing in the fourth quarter, a 35 percent decline from 3Q15.

For investors in mortgage stocks, the question becomes: Well, how much will these beaten-down eight come back?

A huge factor in the record-setting year was the 115.5 percent surge in refinance loans securitized in Ginnie MBS.

Prime jumbo MBS issuance rebounded from a soft 2014 with $12.08 billion in issuance, a 25.4 percent gain.

Wells' lending performance stands in contrast to its closest JPMorgan Chase, which reported a 23.3 percent sequential decline in mortgage production for the period.

When the Federal Reserve hiked short-term rates back in mid-December, mortgage rates were expected to increase as well and keep heading north in the new year. But thanks to deep concerns about economic growth in China – not to mention plunging oil prices – all bets are now off. This past week, the price on the benchmark Fannie Mae 3.5 percent security increased by 44 basis points, according to figures compiled by MBS Quoteline. As Inside MBS & ABS went to press ...

When’s the last time a regional or megabank bought a nonbank mortgage company? Wells Fargo? JPMorgan? BofA? Citigroup? Nope, none of them, that we can recall...