More than $85 million in peer-to-peer mortgages were originated in 2013 via National Family Mortgage. It may double that performance this year.

Casey is responsible for all origination and operations functions at the top 10 ranked lender

Moody’s notes that all three have grown their production operations – a positive – but question whether over the long term whether they can compete with banks in the “prime” market.

It's no secret that banks like to hold jumbo mortgages in portfolio, but depositories are also major contributors to non-agency securities.

The HUD pools had an estimated unpaid principal balance of $10.7 billion and a broker price opinion of $8.2 billion.

The change resulted in the cessation of dividend payments by the GSEs to Treasury, replacing it with a “sweep” of all almost net profits earned by Fannie and Freddie.

The mortgage industry is once again at a crossroad. What will save lenders? Answer: cash-out refis, non-QM loans, and 80-10-10s.

The long-anticipated final implementation of the so-called Volcker rule this spring will have a limited impact on securitized products, according to a recent report by Barclays. A requirement of the Dodd-Frank Act to prohibit banking entities from engaging in proprietary trading and making investments with private-equity funds and hedge funds, the Volcker rule was finalized by five federal regulators last month and becomes effective April 1, 2014. Banks should expect...

Ginnie Mae gave seller/servicers a heads-up on the longer approval times in late November at an “education summit” in Washington attended by both new and existing issuers.

Refinance mortgages accounted for 80.1 percent of agency production back in 2012, but that declined to 65.6 percent last year and just 45.3 percent of fourth-quarter business.