Mortgage lenders, start your engines: the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loan limit is set to rise...

Meanwhile, bank whole loan portfolios have been increasing – largely because of the resurgence of jumbo mortgage originations, along with the recovery in home-equity lending.

The improved numbers suggest that the industry’s fears those rules would crush or even depress the market somewhat were overblown.

The Wells account and credit card scandal did not involve mortgages, but the bank is the nation’s largest overall home funder and retail originator.

A group of 13 publicly traded lenders reported a combined $1.72 billion in production and secondary marketing income for the second quarter.

Altisource’s stock price declined by 6.4 percent to $30.77 per share shortly after the charges were announced, but the stock has rebounded somewhat…

Meanwhile, if you want to know where Clinton and Trump stand on the issue of homeownership in America, you can review their respective party platforms...

Founded by former Goldman Sachs executive Donald Mullen, Pretium Partners bills itself as a specialized investment management firm with roughly $6.5 billion of assets under management.

One mortgage CEO who runs a California-based shop told IMF his firm recently was in a pinch and paid a $1,500 “rush fee” to an appraiser to get a deal done on time.

Freddie expects originations to hit $2.0 trillion this year, a 14.3 percent sequential improvement…