Georgetown Law Professor Adam Levitin: “I am deeply concerned about the basic direction of the chairman’s housing-finance reform proposal outline..."

Fix-and-flip loans typically payoff in about seven months...

Added MBA’s Walsh: “On the servicing side of the business, mortgage servicing impairments resulting from December’s drop in interest rates hurt profitability.”

The CFPB introduced the GSE patch in 2014 as a temporary measure…

Usually, mortgage banking is a counter-cyclical business, but not always...

Two nonbanks that have been steady earners reported significant losses during the fourth quarter…

The mortgages boast an average credit score of 736...

And that means: two more years of hyper-partisan bickering on both sides and legislation only getting passed if there’s a bi-partisan consensus or a national emergency...

Goldman hasn’t been active in the prime non-agency MBS market except for a one-off deal in 2014.

The bureau plans to extend the terms of half the current members in order to achieve the staggered terms and ensure continuity.