The market did not react kindly to Five Oaks' earnings news. At one point in trading, its share price was down 13 percent on the day.

Mortgage brokerage firms added 200 workers during March. Employment in the sector now stands at 80,400 positions.

Stonegate’s results were affected by declining interest rates, a plague that has marred the performance of residential servicers from coast to coast...

Freddie Mac reduced its portfolio to $339.9 billion at the end of the quarter, a 2.0 percent drop. Like Fannie, the biggest decline in percentage terms was in non-agency MBS…

New applications are booming at PRMG...

Impac Mortgage, one of the better known non-QM lenders, funded $75.0 million in such loans during the first quarter of 2016, up from $50.8 million in the previous quarter.

Altisource Residential plans to recycle NPL money into investments of “pools of stabilized rental homes at attractive yields.”

Investor Unite’s Tim Pagliara said that a stay would prejudice him under Virginia law, where the case is to be “expedited” and could be resolved on the merits…

Is there a future for “marketplace” lenders in mortgage banking? Opinions can differ…

A surge of new refinance business and a seasonal uptick in purchase-mortgage activity helped lift agency issuance of single-family MBS in April, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae produced $108.95 billion of new single-family MBS last month, the strongest monthly output since September 2015. Gross new issuance was up 9.8 percent from March, but on a year-to-date basis, production was still down 3.9 percent from the volume generated in the first four months of 2015. Ginnie saw...[Includes two data tables]