The Department of Housing and Urban Development will issue, in September, final rules to ease FHA requirements for financing condominium purchases and refinancings.

Federal courts have thrown out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s aggressive interpretation of anti-kickback provisions in the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. But plenty of questions remain about how new management of the agency will handle the issue or the fate of existing guidance on marketing service agreements, industry experts said this week.

“There is potential for them to issue more guidance, and we hope it to be the right guidance that’s consistent with 40 years of the RESPA law,” said Kenneth Trepeta…

Some warehouse lenders are nervous about the VA ‘orphan loan’ mess as well, sources told Inside Mortgage Finance…

The figures show that compared to the first quarter of 2017, both JPM and Wells greatly reduced their FHLB borrowings…

FHA may soon have a new condo lending rule, but one lobbyist called it "four years too late..."

In the spring of 2017, it came to light the bureau would take legal action against Zillow...

Incenter Mortgage Advisors, Denver, is getting ready to launch a flow MSR marketplace of its own…

Leon Cooperman has been increasing his stake in Ocwen Financial and now owns about 11 percent of the firm…

The D.C. circuit decision involving PHH Mortgage and Sec. 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act should lead the CFPB to rethink its 2015 guidance on marketing services agreements, industry groups say. The CFPB under former director Richard Cordray issued guidance suggesting that many MSAs are designed to evade RESPA’s prohibition on the payment and acceptance of kickbacks and referral fees. “What the bureau did was to create an impression that it would ...