As one veteran mortgage consultant put it: “There are no Amazons in this industry,” a reference to the online giant…

The goal of the collaborative: to produce research papers that will lay the groundwork for policy recommendations over the next two years…

Purchase-mortgage volume has been gaining speed since bottoming out in February…

FUN FACT: Between 2000 and 2007, roughly $2.726 trillion of subprime residential loans were originated nationwide. Last year, just $2.0 billion were funded.

An expert in the commercial real estate debt market is calling on industry participants to “reset the business to where it used to be” to stop the commercial MBS market from shrinking any further. In a recent blog, Rick Jones, partner and co-chair of Dechert’s finance and real estate practice, noted CRE securitization, or at least the conduit part of the business, continues to dwindle. It has fallen from $800 billion in outstanding principal balance in 2007 to approximately $400 billion currently, with a run rate of about $50 billion annually. The downward trend is...

Fitch was on top, although both companies had equal shares at 36.5 percent…

Over the past 18 months or so, the DOJ has expanded FCA use to reverse mortgages and loan servicing, according to attorneys Phil Schulman and Kristie Kully…

“This is a big step for them [Movement],” said consultant David Lykken, president of Transformational Mortgage Solutions.

Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-ID, listed maintaining the TBA market and the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage among his important principles for reform…

Maybe GSE 'recap and release' is DOA?