The window to pass reform measures, even narrowly targeted provisions that have bipartisan support, might be closing.

With the jumbo MBS market slow to rebound, Redwood Trust has put an increased emphasis on agency mortgages, its commercial mortgage business and risk-sharing transactions with the government-sponsored enterprises. On the residential side, Redwood has continued to work on issuing jumbo MBS, but the real estate investment trust usually finds better execution in whole-loan sales. Redwood obtained approval as a seller to the GSEs at the end of 2013 and completed $4.0 billion in conforming mortgage correspondent business last year. During the fourth quarter, Redwood delivered...

At Dec. 31, depositories held $964.2 billion of pass-through securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, a gain of 1.3 percent from the third quarter.

Closing delays related to appraisals, title search, insurance and property inspections have all increased in terms of market share in recent months, led by appraisal issues.

Although Walter Investment Management lost a ton of dough in 2014, it sees brighter days ahead...

The fourth quarter was Nationstar’s worst production quarter of the year.

However, the broker channel generated $117 billion of new originations, the lowest reading since 1995.

CMG Mortgage is the top contributor to the jumbo MBS with a 14.3 percent share, followed by EverBank Financial (8.3 percent) and Bridgeview Bancorp (5.7 percent).

Walter's cash-flow declined noticeably: For the full year, revenues came in at $1.5 billion, a decline of $315.3 million or 17 percent...

Kevin Watters said Chase has reduced its mortgage staffing levels due to declines in originations and improvements in mortgage performance.