At HUD, staffing levels have dropped almost 50 percent since 1991. From 2008 to 2017, HUD lost 18.5 percent of its full-time permanent staff, the highest staffing loss among any cabinet-level agency…

Through the first nine months of the year, mortgage banking income was up 20.9 percent from the same period in 2017.

Stakeholders don’t anticipate the FHFA, with a new director nominated by President Trump, to move immediately to reduce the current benchmark loan limit...

Caliber’s loans are generally underwritten to a full documentation standard for income, assets and employment.

In 2017, MLO license growth was strong at 8.9 percent annualized, but not this year…

HERA allows exceptions for the maximum conforming loan limits for “high cost areas.”

Arch Chief Economist DeFranco says despite lower sales, it’s still a seller’s market in most cities…

Making sure the MBS issued by the two GSEs perform identically, within narrow limits, is key to convincing traders…

A huge chunk of the fall-off in Fannie/Freddie MBS holdings occurred at Wells Fargo, which reduced its investment in these securities by $7.31 billion.

The implication is that banks – which seems to have excess capacity on their balance sheets – could simply hold conventional loans in portfolio…