Impac said it will originate more than $2.0 billion of all mortgages in 1Q15, almost double what it produced the previous quarter.

The bill would exclude from the calculation insurance and taxes held in escrow and fees paid to affiliated companies...

With the first quarter coming to a close, the mortgage mergers and acquisitions market shifted into high gear this week as Ocwen Financial stepped up its auction of agency servicing rights and new revelations surfaced that RoundPoint Mortgage was almost sold, but the deal hit a snag over pricing. According to investment banking officials familiar with the RoundPoint situation, a buyer backed away from the transaction because the servicer’s owner, Tavistock Group ...

Is it possible that Ocwen will sell the entire company and not just all of its agency servicing rights?

Lenders make adjustments to staffing levels based on demand for purchase mortgages while demand for refinances spur little increase in mortgage employment levels, according to new research from staff at the Federal Reserve. Steve Sharpe, an economist at the Fed, and Shane Sherlund, an assistant director at the Fed, said mortgage processing capacity constraints caused by refi booms reduce originations to borrowers with low to modest credit scores ...

Gebre was Galante’s temporary replacement. Until a recent cut in premiums, FHA volume has been steadily dropping.

How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.

Fannie Mae is still the most prolific author of single-family MBS, accounting for 46.6 percent of agency MBS outstanding at Dec. 31.

Fannie and Freddie don't get out of bed in the morning without first talking to the FHFA. (Then again, the two are in conservatorship.)

Mortgage professionals overwhelmingly believe the Dodd-Frank Act should be revised, removing barriers to innovation and to reduce the cost of manufacturing a mortgage.