A mortgage employee who who merely states general information such as “we offer rates as low as 3% to qualified consumers” would not be considered a loan originator.

Want to issue MBS in the mortgage market of the future? Better bring your wallet.

Piper Jaffray owns 8.72 percent of Bexil Corp., the parent of Bexil American Mortgage. Meanwhile, ICBA likes the Corker-Warner bill, but...

Depositories sold $396 billion of single-family mortgages into the secondary market in the first quarter, down 5 percent from the previous period.

There is a whole other level of supervisory and enforcement authority available to the bureau under a director approved with the consent of the Senate, mostly having to do with non-bank lending.

The expanded system would include a more comprehensive method for measuring lenders’ loss mitigation activities as well as their compliance with FHA’s default servicing requirements.

The Congressman argues that if the two are not allowed pay down their draws from Treasury “then any future funds sent" to the U.S. should be reinvested in the housing market.

Mortgage brokers may soon get a new source of warehouse credit: First Guaranty Mortgage Corp.

Provident Funding has one word for last week's rate spike: "Ugly." Meanwhile, the TBW MSR portfolio finally gets sold...

Investors accounted for 20 percent of home purchases in May, based on the three-month moving average, the third consecutive decline in investor share.