At last check, W.J. Bradley employed roughly 500 workers...

But does this mean the HUD Inspector General and Department of Justice will ease up on suing lenders?

John Shrewsberry, a senior vice president at Wells Fargo, said the bank has focused on adding jumbo mortgages to its portfolio. “They are very safe loans,” he said. “I think we’ve got four basis points of loss coming through that portfolio.”

HUD’s Single Family Policy Handbook authorizes lenders to order testing or remediation to ensure that the property’s public-water supply has acceptable levels of contaminants.

One executive who’s involved with the working group said the new guidance from the due diligence firms will help the rating agencies identify "material" risk...

MorVest has represented only sellers of mortgage servicing rights, but that may change...

When the nonbank first unveiled the stock buy-back program, its shares were trading at $8.61.

Good news for mortgage bankers: gain-on-sale profit margins are on the rise.

The supply of outstanding ABS itself fell slightly in the fourth quarter, down 2.3 percent to $704.91 billion...

Matthew Tomiak, a managing director at Redwood Trust, said investors occasionally request that Redwood issue publicly-registered jumbo MBS.