Some of the nation's largest home lenders are beginning to cut mortgage workers as refinancing applications swoon.

Loan applications are strong at Citadel, a newly launched nonprime lender. HUD goes on furlough for a day.

Redwood Trust, not surprisingly, was the top jumbo MBS issuer in the first half of 2013, according to exclusive rankings from Inside MBS & ABS.

HUD thinks random sampling would help make post-endorsement reviews more efficient, but some legal advisors believe the cost is too great.

The Fed chief told elected officials that whatever housing finance reform plan they choose to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it should be clear to private investors about the government’s role in the market.

Not only are nonperforming residential mortgages being placed into new securities, but so are re-performing loans.

Fear and loathing in the mortgage job market? Movement Mortgage has let several mortgage workers go. Can looser underwriting standards save the day?

First-time homebuyers accounted for 33 percent of all GSE-securitized purchase mortgages in the first half, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

Jumbo originations increased at First Republic Bank, but its mortgage gain-on-sale margin took a hit.

The non-cash share of home-purchase financing increased to 71 percent in June from 67 percent in February, based on the three-month moving average.