The agency – which still doesn’t have a permanent president – issued $443.2 billion of MBS backed by forward single-family mortgages in 2017, a 10.8 percent decline from the previous year.

Issues related to servicing are often overlooked when it comes to discussions on housing-finance reform, according to an Urban Institute paper published this week.

PNC Bank made a relatively paltry $29 million in noninterest income on its mortgage business in the fourth quarter of 2017.

After some delays, PennyMac Financial Services launched its broker channel operations this week.

Banks are increasingly worried about staying compliant with all the recent regulations they’re contending with – and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act is at the top of the list.

The government-sponsored enterprises both ended 2017 with record-setting numbers in the mul-tifamily market. Freddie Mac issued $68.0 billion in multifamily securities last year, up from $51.2 bil-lion the previous year.

Non-agency mortgage-backed securities issuance had its best quarter of 2017 during the final three months of the year.

After rumors late this week surfaced that Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, was walking away from supporting the government-sponsored enterprises’ bill (Corker-Warner) he crafted with Bob Corker, R-TN, a source close to the housing finance reform discussions confirmed that is not the case.

Mortgage rates are back up for the week ending Jan. 11, 2018, following Treasury yields, according to the latest results of the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday morning.

It’s possible that mortgage lenders and servicers will see the CFPB during the tenure of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney use the five-year “look back” the bureau is required to perform to make significant changes to a pair of major rulemakings: the Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act integrated disclosure rule (TRID) and the ability-to-repay rule.