In the last 12 months the foreclosure inventory has been depleted by more than 150,000 homes, a 28 percent drop.

Mortgage brokers saw their market share top 11.0 percent in the second quarter, the highest reading in quite some time, Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Publicly traded lenders that could benefit from the trend include First Republic Bank, Flagstar Bank, Nationstar Mortgage and U.S. Bank…

Loans originated on or after Oct. 1, 2017, are eligible for new high loan-to-value streamlined refinance programs being rolled out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And one analyst said despite more investor exposure to defaults, he views the programs as a good move in the event home prices begin to trend downward. A year after the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s initial announcement about the streamlined refi program, the regulator set the eligibility date and provided more program details last week. “The eligibility date was...

According to a Freddie spokesman, the loan represents the “the largest-ever single-asset tax-exempt financing completed” by the GSE…

Wells Fargo regained the title of the top non-agency jumbo lender in the second quarter, besting Chase…

No update from loanDepot on the IPO, but CEO Anthony Hsieh took some shots at the rumor mill...

Nonbank home originators continued to dominate the top five FHA rankings...

Our ranking of the nonconforming sector is divided among lenders that specialize in the products and those where it accounts for a small slice of production.

One lobbyist told Inside Mortgage Finance this week he believes that Watt eventually will strike a deal on the issue with Treasury, but he was uncertain how it might play out.