Democrats and consumer advocates suggest that some servicers aren't following forbearance requirements established by the CARES Act.

United Wholesale sold $5.74 billion of jumbos to unaffiliated non-agency buyers in 2019.

In order to lower servicing costs, FHA proposed limiting required mortgagee curtailment of interest to the length of the mortgagee’s delay...

Overall, refinances accounted for 64.2% of new business compared to a reading of 60.1% the week before. The trade group’s purchase index decreased 6.0%

JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon welcomed the FSOC news, saying during a Q&A session, “We’ve been very consistent that mortgages, believe it or not, are more – far more costly than they should be. Normally, you’d be looking at – if you looked at the 10-year [Treasury] rate which is what, 60 basis points, the mortgage take should be 1.6% or 1.8% instead of 3.3%.”

The venerable agency MBS platform set production records in both the third and fourth quarters of 2019, caught its breath in early 2020, and then rose 12.7% to a new high in the April-June cycle.

Wells posted a 204 basis point held-for-sale production margin, up an impressive 96 bps from 1Q20...

Nearly 8% of mortgages in the MBS are in forbearance, though all of the borrowers are current on their payments.

The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac measurement came in at 6.07%, down 11 bps, the fifth consecutive decline.

An open question mark, the proposed Genworth-Oceanwide merger was first announced in 2016...