By the end of this year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to create a clearinghouse of resources such as translated mortgage documents to help borrowers who have a limited proficiency of English.

Goldman Sachs is approaching $1 billion in credit towards reaching a $1.8 billion consumer-relief obligation under two mortgage-related settlement agreements with the Department of Justice and three states, including New York, Illinois and California.

The higher delinquency rates on FHA/VA loans are likely tied to hurricanes that struck select markets last fall.

UHM has roughly 130 retail branches across 36 licensed states…

Residential firms looking to sell mortgage servicing rights are in a sweet spot right now. However...

Fannie disclosed the single-security “may adversely affect our financial results and contribute to declines in the liquidity or market value of our MBS.”

HomeStreet restructured its mortgage business last year…

According to a tally by Inside Mortgage Finance, few warehouse providers bucked the trend of falling commitments.

Packaging the loans into a non-agency MBS suggests that Flagstar expects better execution in the non-agency market than from delivering the mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

KBR points out that risk-sharing results in premiums being shifted away from Fannie and Freddie to providers of credit risk protection.