Most observers believe the UGC IPO will happen – it’s just a matter of when. Maybe in September?

Quicken stated: “The reality is that this decision will have no effect on how we conduct our business.”

According to KBR, falling rates trimmed MSR values by roughly 6 percent.

Approximately 30 percent of survey respondents aged 18 to 29 said they would put off buying a house because of the burden of student loan debt, according to study done last year by Black Knight Financial services.

The new bill signed by President Obama should make condo lending a little easier...

Conduit deals issued in the second half of this year will benefit the most from spread tightening…

Next week, the GSEs will release 2Q results and all eyes will be on the line item that reveals the net gain or loss from their derivatives, the instruments the two use to hedge their MBS positions.

Impac said that while it sells production, it is now retaining more than 80.0 percent of its mortgage servicing rights.

New issuance of non-agency commercial MBS fell dramatically during the second quarter of 2016, more than offsetting a modest uptick in the production of agency multifamily MBS, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. Non-agency CMBS issuance fell to just $12.87 billion in the second quarter, a 29.5 percent drop from the first three months of the year. It was the lowest quarterly output of new CMBS since the second quarter of 2012, when just $10.63 billion of new securities were issued and the market was still finding its legs after the financial meltdown. New CMBS issuance has been...[Includes one data table]

Rob Branthover, a managing director at Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp., noted that purchase-mortgage originators are doing well…