FHFA’s Mary Ellen Taylor noted the project aims to increase liquidity in the to-be announced MBS market and is not an effort to combine Fannie and Freddie into one entity.

Ocwen is scheduled to report fourth quarter results on Wednesday…

NAR makes a persuasive case that Fannie and Freddie should be restructured as strictly regulated, shareholder-owned utilities…

A Freddie spokesman confirmed to us what we’ve always assumed: “We are not a primary lender.”

And here’s another farce: Once the system is built, maintaining it will be cheap (because regulations and products never change)…

Zillow’s management believes that within three to five years the firm could originate 3,000 mortgages per month...

Verus first launched its acquisition program in 2015. As of the end of October, the company had purchased mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $3 billion…

The gain in the sector was largely attributable to the biggest player in table-funding: United Wholesale Mortgage…

TIAA CEO Blake Wilson: “Mortgage lending is a dynamic and highly competitive industry and the market we’re in today is very different than just a few years ago..."

Doyle noted it was the first time in a while that GSE-eligible loans put out for bid to non-agency investors failed to trade.