Rocket Mortgage ranked as the top originator of conventional-conforming loans with an estimated $279.3 billion in volume.

But the trades groups also believe implementation and development of new guidance should not be rushed.

Might we see a 5% conventional mortgage by yearend?

NRIC ended the year with an MSR portfolio sized at $483.0 billion, up 1.5% quarter over quarter.

Founded in 2018, the lender has so far focused on mortgages for foreign nationals.

Mortgage brokers trimmed 500 positions from their payrolls during December.

Vesta was established in the context of two big trends: Lenders increasingly are seeing technology as a differentiator, and automation...

Total Ginnie issuance was down 3.2% largely due to an 18.7% collapse in rate-term refinance.

During the firm’s earnings call, founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh assured analysts the nonbank has plenty of liquidity and will gain market share in the year ahead.

The general consensus among executives and loan officers over the past two weeks is that layoffs likely are on the way — it’s just a matter of when.