With commercial banks continuing to pare back their role in the mortgage market, nonbanks are aggressively hiring top performers.

With rates rising of late, MSR pricing should firm up...

Former Fannie CFO Howard said this leaves the government-controlled mortgage giant to pay about $7 billion over the next 10 years in premiums and hedging costs.

The improved R&W framework has been a big plus for GSE sellers...

SFIG noted that the proposal won’t supplant the group’s efforts to pursue a resolution from the CFPB to uncertainty related to TRID exceptions.

When the two GSEs were losing money earlier in the decade, then-Acting FHFA Director Edward DeMarco suspended the contributions before any had ever been made.

DeMarco, by the way, called on Congress to take a “thoughtful” review of the FHA program and Ginnie Mae’s role in housing finance.

There is, however, a 0 to 6 percent fee...

A Realtor based in California noted that selling prices are generally increasing, but at widely disparate rates based on location...

There are two sides to the story. A year from now, the agency MBS market could reach the $6.0 trillion mark...