Will cash-out refinancings ever return? Meanwhile, a new petition posted on the White House website that might helps GSE shareholders is taking off.

Thanks to rising home values and lower delinquencies, investors are gobbling up subprime MBS, causing prices to rise.

By excluding from the points and fees calculation compensation paid by creditors and mortgage brokers to their employees, the bureau prevents some double counting.

The Obama administration has mounted a public relations push, including a recent White House social media buzz, pushing for the HARP 3.0 program.

Don't put too much stock in the new government figures on mortgage hiring. Some firms are cutting back like Pacific Union Financial.

The draft includes numerous provisions designed to ensure access to the revamped secondary market for credit unions and community banks with less than $10 billion in assets.

In its 10-Q filing for the first quarter, Fannie Mae reported $3.74 billion of “gross unrealized gains” on a host of different securities in its “available for sale” account.

Raj Date's new mortgage firm bills itself as a consumer finance company and is stacked with former high-level employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The National Association of Independent Housing Professionals believes there is an anti-broker bias at the CFPB, citing new QM adjustments.

Nationstar Mortgage has been an active issuer of debt this year. The nonbank continues to scour the market for servicing acquisitions.