In 1Q20, REITs – slammed by margin calls – shed $120.21 billion of securitized product from their portfolios. At the midway point in 2020, the industry’s MBS holdings remained far below the fourth quarter.

RE/MAX said the cost is expected to have a “negligible” impact on the firm’s earnings for the third quarter...

The nation’s 16^th largest servicer also disclosed it will restore incentive pay that was voluntarily given up by CEO Glen Messina.

Several industry executives and officials from four state regulatory agencies attended the meeting on remote work flexibility.

Agency data suggest the purchase market started to recover a bit in the third quarter. (Includes four data charts.)

Consumer advocates believe the CFPB has made the complaint database less useful...

The 14 lender/servicers reported $4.02 billion in income from those activities during the second quarter, up from $1.40 billion in the first three months of 2020.

As for competitive bids, that's a different matter entirely...

The pencil sharpening represents a 13.8% jump from the $3.4 trillion Fannie predicted just month ago, and 88.8% more than the $2.06 trillion in originations the GSE forecast in January, before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic.