The New Jersey-based Freedom is no ordinary FHA lender. According to Inside FHA/VA Lending it ranked third nationwide in FHA production last year with $4.52 billion.

The nation’s largest MBS-investing real estate investment trust, Annaly Capital Management, this week agreed to buy the third largest player in the market, setting off speculation among analysts and investors that the “mREIT” sector could be in for a healthy dose of consolidation. The New York-based Annaly said it would buy Hatteras Financial Corp., Winston-Salem, NC, for roughly $1.5 billion in cash and stock. At year end, Annaly ranked...

So, in other words, a consumer who’s having trouble making his/her mortgage payment soon will have to give Uncle Sam more money in taxes...

Many non-agency MBS investors insist that they aren’t comfortable with the liability posed by TRID…

Servicers must round up eligible customers and present offers by October 15 of this year.

Some 59.6 percent of new issuance in the first quarter consisted of re-securitizations and deals backed by seasoned re-performing and nonperforming loans...

Trouble ahead for CFPB chief Richard Cordray? The judges asked: “What independent agencies now or historically have been headed by a single person…”

Meanwhile, BofA’s “legacy assets and servicing” unit lost $40 million in the first quarter of 2016.

Wells reported mortgage banking non-interest income of $1.6 billion for the first quarter, a $62 million decline from the prior period.

Private mortgage insurance firms adjusted their pricing in early 2016…