If Fannie Mae bought a servicing platform Congress, of course, would blow a gasket...

Laurie Goodman, director of the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center, is among those who support Treasury’s push to include a deal agent in the benchmark non-agency MBS.

In the jumbo MBS sector, mortgage firms issued $4.60 billion of bonds in 1Q, a hefty 20.3 percent increase from 4Q and more than triple the volume posed during the first three months of 2014.

Credit unions now lay claim to almost 10 percent of the residential lending market.

Where are these FHA loans migrating to? “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” said Chappelle.

Meanwhile, Citigroup continues to see its servicing “for others” portfolio shrink...

In general, depositories have not been active buyers of mortgage companies, though that’s starting to change somewhat.

Is the bloom off the rose in the single-family home rental market? Some institutional investors are shedding assets.

Certain factions of the industry want the CFPB to develop a plan to provide implementation support during a restrained enforcement period following the Aug. 1 effective date.

Some lenders are swamped with refis...