“We are building a higher quality and less volatile mortgage business,” said JPMorgan mortgage executive Kevin Watters.

Mortgage companies that fall under the heading “real estate credit” actually cut 300 employees during the month, leaving the sector with 211,700 full-timers.

For the full year, PHH Mortgage was the top IO lender in the nation with $12.81 billion in production...

Reverse volume leader American Advisors Group funded $2.0 billion in 2014, giving it a market share of 14.7 percent.

If Fannie and/or Freddie have a negative net worth, investors wouldn’t buy their MBS and if investors don’t buy their MBS we would have financial Armageddon…

The seller was not identified by Phoenix, but in the offering circular the firm is identified as “an independent mortgage banker established in 1990.”

Treasury counselor Michael Stegman wants the common securitization platform project to be opened to the private sector.

Even without the bump in seasoned loans (courtesy of BofA), Freddie’s MBS activity was up significantly from January.

Sixteen publicly-traded mortgage REITs reported a fair market value of $282.62 billion for their aggregate MBS holdings at December 31.

In less than 10 months, a volume-heavy private-label origination deal that PHH Mortgage has with Wall Street giant Merrill Lynch is set to expire, potentially blowing a hole in its production machine. According to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PHH acknowledges that “there can be no assurances that the agreement will be renewed on favorable terms, if at all.” If the deal were to be cancelled, PHH could see...