“You need a lot of issuers out there and you need more investors,” said Redwood CEO Marty Hughes.

Among the top five retail lenders, Wells Fargo had the largest sequential decline in 1Q17, down 41.2 percent.

But keep in mind the 'new nonprime' is nothing like the toxic and predatory products of the last decade...

Lenders cited various technology issues, costs and difficulties getting loan officers to change behavior as barriers to digitizing the mortgage process.

Agency MBS data suggest the purchase market hit its low spot in January and has been slowing building momentum ever since…

Larry Charbonneau, who conducts warehouse lending reviews for commercial banks, said usage rates are definitely improving this spring.

Roughly 10.8 percent of the mortgages were sourced through the Federal Home Loan Banks’ Mortgage Partnership Finance program.

In the first quarter, PennyMac ranked fourth among all home lenders, trailing Wells Fargo, Chase Home Finance and Quicken, according to a ranking from Inside Mortgage Finance.

Almost every week it seems like a lender launches a digital mortgage process allowing for loan applications to be received and processed online effortlessly and efficiently. However, according to a recent survey of lenders, a number of barriers stand in the way of digital mortgages. Lenders cited various technology issues, costs and difficulties getting loan officers to change behavior as barriers to digitizing the mortgage process. Some 73 lenders participated in the survey administered by the Strategic Mortgage Finance Group earlier this year. The top barrier to digital mortgage offerings was...

Deephaven Mortgage is preparing to issue its second nonprime MBS of the year...