The mortgage industry wants the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to clarify whether mortgages subject to repurchase demands will lose their “qualified mortgage” status under the bureau’s new ability-to-repay rule.

Milestone Advisors has picked a winning bidder for the MSR portfolio once owned by Taylor, Bean & Whitaker.

JPMorgan Chase will slash thousands of mortgage workers over the next 20 months.

Mortgage bankers are promising to wage war over any new guaranty fee hikes that are used for non-residential projects.

The GSEs continued to wrangle with seller/servicers over repurchase requests during the fourth quarter of 2012, but mostly over loans originated five years earlier.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has not given up on its effort to install risk-based pricing for guaranty fees.

Nationstar Mortgage signs a new employment contract with one of its top executives, CFO David Hisey.

A new bipartisan panel wants to close Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and limit U.S. support for mortgages.

Jumbo loan prices are red hot.

Wells Fargo, the nation's largest home funder, is continuing to review its mortgage joint ventures.