The major driver was a 16.8 percent jump in Fannie Mae issuance…

In 10 cases, the servicing process was delayed by more than two years...

Appraisal bias remains a primary concern…

If Ocwen reenters the servicing market as a buyer it will be doing so at a time when MSR prices are the highest they’ve been all decade...

But there’s a catch: the portfolio has a delinquency rate of 11.5 percent and foreclosures of 1.5 percent.

However, some large commercial banks are willing to remain in the market through correspondent arrangements…

The trading peak for the year came in February at $239.2 billion.

Will FHA hike its premiums? Maybe, maybe not...

The Zeldin bill passed by a vote of 48-0.

Correspondent lenders and mortgage brokers continue to account for an unusually large share of FHA and VA lending, according to a new analysis by Inside FHA/VA Lending. During the first six months of 2018, correspondent-lending programs accounted for 53.3 percent of government-insured mortgage production, according to survey data reported by a broad cross-section of the market. At the same time, correspondent production accounted for 46.4 percent of conventional-conforming lending and a mere 16.1 percent of the non-agency jumbo market. The heavy reliance on agency securitization in both the conventional and government-insured sectors helps explain the higher levels of correspondent production. For many smaller shops, it is more economical to sell production to aggregators than pay the overhead costs of dealing directly with the agencies. In the government-insured sector, some banks are ... [Chart]