Shouldn’t the managements of Fannie and Freddie start preparing for the day when they’re “free” from the shackles of regulatory bondage? Shouldn’t CEOs Hugh Frater (Fannie) and David Brickman (Freddie) be holding high level meetings with their lieutenants regarding strategies for the future?

Of course, mortgage historians know that Berkshire took a bite at the GSE apple a few decades back. In 2000, Berkshire was one of the largest shareholders in Freddie...

1st Alliance CEO John Dilorio disputed the interpretation, noting that unlicensed call center workers had no ability to choose a program, lock a mortgage rate, process underwriting findings or present loan terms to borrowers.

In the Treasury blueprint, the Trump administration clearly states its position: “Congress should consider permitting additional classes of mortgage lenders to become FHLBank members.”

The MBS from Reverse Mortgage Funding will be the first post-crisis deal backed by newly-originated proprietary reverse mortgages.

JMP Securities has a “market perform” rating on Impac Mortgage, the publicly traded nonbank that’s trying to carve out a space for itself in the non-QM sector but can’t resist the temptation of reaching for GSE refis...

Prior to joining Flagstar, Neufeld spent more than five years as SVP and treasurer of Mr. Cooper, where he managed the nonbank’s warehouse lines and was responsible for oversight of all treasury functions…

In their petition for a writ of certiorari, the shareholders said the Fifth Circuit afforded them no relief from their injuries and the “petitioners are thus not ‘prevailing parties’ in any meaningful sense.”

In recent years, mortgages funded by Quicken have been included in prime non-agency MBS issued by others, but this is the first deal backed solely by loans originated by Quicken and serviced by the firm.

The biggest growth in the agency mortgage market during the third quarter of 2019 came from increases in refinance lending…