The publicly traded servicer/originator took in $330.7 million in revenue, a 35.2 percent decline from 1Q15. Its origination revenue was a meager $23.2 million…

Underserved markets will suffer by not allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to retain capital, according to Rep. Mike Capuano, D-MA, who urged the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Treasury Department to re-examine the terms of their conservatorship. Under the current plan, the government-sponsored enterprises are not allowed to build capital and by January 2018 their reserves are expected to be wound down to zero. Capuano said...

A spokesman for BofA declined to provide any color on the mark, but provided a link to past financial filings where the bank talks about its hedging activities which are based on “model and other cash flow” assumptions.

Flagstar is the only depository that ranks among the nation’s top-five wholesale/broker lenders, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

Warehouse consultant Larry Charbonneau noted that he knows of at least two new entrants to the business.

As part of the program, the GSE will enhance loan-level disclosures for the RPLs to provide more transparency.

Roughly $41.42 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued in the first quarter, up 35.8 percent from the unusually low volume at the end of 2015.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs signaled this week that Congress is unlikely to take up comprehensive legislation to reform the government-sponsored enterprises before the presidential election this fall. Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-AL, asked the Government Accountability Office to publish a report on a variety of issues involving the GSEs and their potential future structure by Nov. 1. Shelby’s deadline could be ambitious for such a complex issue: a report published last week by the GAO on issues with nonbank mortgage servicers was requested back in October 2014. The timeline suggests...

New reports suggest that government-backed mortgage markets provide better stability for the economy, while investors in non-agency mortgage-backed securities were faulted for abandoning the market after the start of the financial crisis. A paper published last week by economists at the Federal Reserve found that areas with high levels of participation from the government-sponsored enterprises and FHA had relatively lower unemployment rates, higher home sales ...

Closing times are improving but not by leaps and bounds.