Challenges include higher interest rates, which are translating into lower production volume in 2017…

PHH argues the plaintiffs lack legal standing to intervene, their motion is “inexcusably untimely,” and it fails to satisfy the requirements for intervention.

As one executive put it: “January was slow, February was lower, and I can’t tell how March will be yet.”

Annaly padded its lead as the top REIT MBS investor, thanks, in part, to its acquisition of Hatteras Financial in the third quarter of 2016…

Then again, Trump has been known to surprise people.

The number of mortgage-related examinations by the CFPB declined in most areas with one glaring exception: nonbank residential originators…

However, GSE reform will require a bipartisan effort and already other priorities are developing…

California mortgages account for the large chunk of collateral at 41.2 percent. Texas is a distant second at 10.4 percent.

Bradd Gold of Au Consulting LLC noted that in the year prior to their federal takeover, Fannie and Freddie sold $10 billion of GSE junior preferred.

Piper analyst Kevin Barker and his team estimate that so far in 1Q17, the average refi volume is down 26 percent from fourth quarter levels.