Big trouble for PHH? Its stock is getting clocked.

As recently as this past summer, there was talk in the industry that Wells Fargo might counter-sue the government...

As recently as this past summer, there was talk in the industry that Wells Fargo might counter-sue the government...

The mortgage industry is still demanding “formal” guidance from the CFPB on TRID and will accept nothing less.

What's the right answer to the GSE "problem"? A new Congress and White House will have to decide...

Blackstone’s SFR unit, Invitation Homes, appears to be the market leader with 50,000 rental units nationwide.

In 1Q, the residential MBS sector was down 7.1 percent from 4Q15 with $277.05 billion in new issuance. It was the lowest output since the second quarter of 2014...

Of course, Quicken isn't the only lender that uses call centers to produce retail loans...

A potential shortage of residential real estate appraisers has some concerned that the decline could have far-reaching effects on the housing and mortgage industry. This prompted the Appraisal Foundation to issue a request for comment and examine possible changes to the recently revamped criteria used to qualify appraisers. While new criteria for becoming an appraiser went into effect in January 2015, the Appraiser Qualifications Board published a concept paper in July that was followed by a public hearing in October 2015 to voice its concern about the qualification criteria. Nationwide, the numbers of licensed appraisers has trended...

The call-center business model used by Quicken Loans won praise from real estate agents who often prefer to deal with a local loan officer, according to the results of a new survey by Campbell Surveys and sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance. “It is clear that agents like Quicken for loan programs, lead time on closing dates, policy on providing closing status to agents and performance on meeting closing dates,” said Tom Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys. He said...