Freddie Mac CEO Don Layton: "The fundamentals are strong and residual flaws are gone..."

The noted research firm found that mortgage customers feel as if their servicers are more focused on profit than giving top-notch customer support...

“Some lenders are finally showing more willingness to extend credit to borrowers..." said FHFA Director Mel Watt.

The CFPB has not yet initiated a public process to apply the balancing test to determine which of the new data will be released to the public.

New Residential has purchased several servicing portfolios over the past year, acquiring rights from CitiMortgage, Walter/Ditech and United Shore, among others.

Movement Mortgage was the largest seller of MSRs through co-issuance deals…

“This new trove of documents conclusively shows that the net worth sweep was designed solely to boost Treasury’s coffers and prevent the GSEs from rebuilding capital or exiting conservatorship,” said Investors Unite, a shareholder rights group.

Fannie said that about 3 or 4 percent of DU applications with DTI ratios ranging from 45 percent to 50 percent had been deemed ineligible because they failed the overlay test…

Among the top 20 lenders in 2Q17, Fairway Independent Mortgage had the highest growth rate at 64.2 percent.

New issuance of MBS backed by income-property mortgages during the second quarter rebounded from a lull in early 2017, according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS. A total of $51.03 billion of commercial mortgages were securitized in the second quarter, a gain of 12.1 percent from the first three months of 2017. That brought year-to-date commercial MBS issuance to $96.54 billion, 12.4 percent ahead of the pace set in 2016. But CMBS production was...[Includes one data table]