The number of branch licenses for mortgage originators increased by 12 percent to 43,381.

This is Freddie Mac’s fourth NPL auction of 2015. As for Fannie Mae...

Among the standouts in nonbank MSR growth: Seneca Mortgage, Pingora and RoundPoint...

More than half of Flagstar's servicing portfolio consists of subservicing contracts.

The megabanks still report broker production in their loan sales figures, but most of the activity involves seasoned loans.

Another post-crisis trend is that the volume of Fannie’s multifamily financing had shrunk more than Freddie’s...

Many lenders reported the pleasant confluence of rising origination volume and stronger gain-on-sale margins.

Underwriting overlays established by lenders also will limit some potential borrowers from purchasing homes in the coming years.

Company CEO Mat Ishbia also believes that the loan broker channel is beginning to gain market share, a sentiment borne out by others in the industry.

Firms hoping that new guaranty fee and loan-level price adjustments promulgated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency might boost the jumbo MBS market were sorely disappointed when the final details were released by the agency late last week. One executive who works for a real estate investment trust that issues jumbos said it’s clear to him that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are continuing to “misprice” their g-fees. He would love...