Consultant Paul Hindman, who heads Grid Financial, said he knows of one lender who recently sent 1,000 workers home “with new equipment.” He did not identify the shop by name.

Freedom Mortgage said it has mobilized its work-from-home protocols and “dramatically reduced our work-from-office personnel.”

CHLA recommends that FHFA only apply the new rules to companies with servicing portfolios exceeding $10 billion.

And therein lies a chief fear for the mortgage industry: as the economic damage caused by the spreading coronavirus piles up, will nonbank Ginnie issuers have enough liquidity to make those payments in the months ahead?

Demand for newly-originated non-QMs has declined, prompting aggregators to re-price products, At least one wholesale lender stopped originations...

Conventional and government originators are feasting on refinancings that should keep them busy the next three months. After that...

One warehouse executive who competes against the bank in question noted: “There’s panic among their customers.”

The biggest risk for the purchase-mortgage market: an unemployment rate that could shoot into the stratosphere.

In terms of new HELOC commitments, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citizens Bank ranked first, second and third, respectively in 2019...

Straight talk from Impac CEO George Mangiaracina: “These are extraordinary times with unprecedented interest rate shocks and global market dislocation so any enthusiasm for future prospects should be properly balanced and tempered by potential supply and distribution constraints..."