What's more, the GSEs upped their share of the agency market to 75.8%, and dominated the overall single-family market as well...

The impairment rate didn't decline across the board. It increased for bank statement loans.

Industry watchers said implementing changes to the qualified-mortgage rule could be one of the biggest sticking points.

On the rural housing front, Freddie expects to increase its SFI purchase target from 3,600 to 3,900 loans in 2020 to as much as 4,800 units this year...

One twist: As part of the proposed transaction, Blackstone will take a stake in the Chicago-based GR. However, no specifics were provided.

The $108 million Series B capital raise follows a $20 million investment Insight had made earlier.

The nonbank lender/servicer filed its initial IPO documents in early October and was reportedly set to price the offering later that month.

During the COVID crisis, many states have temporarily allowed licensed MLOs to work from their (unlicensed) homes, rather than branches...

Officials at Acra suggest it's largely business as usual for Citadel, beyond the name change.

Reverse Mortgage Funding maintained its second-place position but trailed far behind with $743.5 million. Finance of America, which is controlled by the Blackstone Group, moved up a notch to third place with $577.0 million.