VA lending, like much of the home origination market, has been on a tear this year, surpassing FHA production...

The CARES Act established a mandate for forbearance but the Conference of State Bank Supervisors said it’s not clear when residential servicers should stop offering new relief plans.

Under the new language, a loan meets the general QM definition if its annual percentage rate exceeds the average prime offer rate (APOR) for a comparable transaction by less than 2.25 percentage points.

Financial turbulence forced REITs to sell off their MBS holdings in March as the pandemic cratered economies around the world.

As the year winds down, mortgage firms still need workers, especially in the back office...

Justice Stephen Breyer raised eyebrows by characterizing the net worth sweep as a nationalization of the enterprises. “That’s what they did,” he said. “If you look at their giving the net worth to Treasury, it’s nationalizing the company.”

Fannie suspended CRT issuance earlier this year when the FHFA proposed new capital requirements for the GSEs. Freddie, though, stayed in...

The FHA/VA market was more subdued, with total conforming-jumbo loans pooled in Ginnie MBS rising 16.7%. The VA program accounted for 83.0% of government-insured jumbo volume, with quarterly securitization up 17.7%.

According to Moody’s, prior to the securitization, loanDepot had sponsored five warehouse deals totaling $1.8 billion...

The decline in first-time buyer share was due in part to a failure of the government-insured sector to keep pace with the conventional market.