Calabria joined the Trump administration from the conservative Cato Institute and is no fan of the GSEs...

Don’t look now but the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury is now down to 2.40 percent. And just in time for the spring home buying season…

Roughly $72.09 billion of jumbo mortgages were originated in the fourth quarter, down 3.4 percent on a sequential basis.

The nation’s three largest residential subservicing firms are: Cenlar, Dovenmuehle and Loan Care. All are nonbanks.

MBA noted that including all business lines, 73 percent of the mortgage companies posted pre-tax profits for the fourth quarter, down from 94 percent in 3Q16…

Some 14 percent of respondents said they might begin making non-qualified mortgages over the coming months.

Mortgage brokers earned their biggest market share in the Ginnie Mae sector…

Tax reform may have a significant impact on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, before federal policymakers get around to resolving the long-running conservatorships of the two government-sponsored enterprises. Reducing the corporate tax rate is a big component of the Trump administration’s tax reform plan, but it could force the GSEs to write down the value of their deferred tax assets. “It is...

The three major credit bureaus plan to exclude two critical pieces of negative information from their reports, which may make it easier for some borrowers to qualify for a mortgage. Many tax liens and civil judgments, which can weigh down a credit score, will be removed. As part of a multi-year plan to alleviate incorrect information, on July 1, Equifax, Experian and Transunion will apply new public record standards when it comes to collecting and the timely updating of civil judgments and tax liens, the Consumer Data Industry Association said this week. The new standard will apply...

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae securitized $183.69 billion of newly originated mortgages produced through the wholesale-broker channel last year, a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis reveals. That was up 22.2 percent from 2015 volume, the biggest increase among the three mortgage-production channels. The biggest increase for broker originations was in Fannie mortgage-backed securities, rising 31.5 percent from 2015, accounting for 12.2 percent of the government-sponsored enterprise’s MBS issuance last year. The dataset includes only purchase and refinance loans that were securitized within six months of origination, and it excludes mortgages with no channel identification. Brokers earned...[Includes two data tables]