Some residential lenders are still living off of refi applications that were filed earlier in the year...

Complaints about residential mortgages were among the first type of gripes to be accepted and tracked by the CFPB’s consumer complaint database.

JPMorgan Chase earned $584 million from its mortgage banking division in the second quarter, more than double the profit of the first quarter.

The “major” counties where it’s cheaper to rent are all in Southern California...

Credit Suisse, the top jumbo MBS issuer through the first half of 2015, placed $629.6 million of jumbo MBS in 2Q, down 44.7 percent on a sequential basis.

Perry Capital and other speculators own the junior preferred and common shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

The enormous amount of capital flowing into the commercial real estate financing industry is the biggest factor that has shaped the market in recent years, according to Brian Stoffers, global president at CBRE Capital Markets. “It’s recognized as a good place to be if you’re an asset allocator, and it’s recognized as an institutional play with growth opportunities and cash flow,” he said speaking on a recent real estate panel in Miami. “So that kind of capital flow has driven [capitalization] rates lower.” Commercial real estate lending levels are exceeding...

The Royal Bank of Scotland may face having to pay a potential settlement of $13 billion amid claims that it sold faulty MBS to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to court documents. RBS was part of a string of litigation initiated in 2011 by the Federal Housing Finance Agency against 18 financial institutions. The suits alleged violations of federal securities laws and state laws in the sale of the non-agency MBS between 2005 and 2007. “MBS volumes linked...

FUN FACT: PIMCO owns almost 12 percent of PHH Corp., the parent of the nation's ninth largest residential servicer.

While a number of structural issues continue to limit activity in the non-agency mortgage-backed security market, reform of the government-sponsored enterprises would dramatically help the sector’s recovery, according to officials at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. “Issuers and investors are not likely to build the infrastructure necessary for a vibrant private-label securities market until they have a better understanding of how the government’s role ...