CDFI loans reduce the amount of risk Angelo Gordon is required to retain from the MBS.

“The QM patch expiration presents an opportunity for regulators to streamline certain rules to put the housing-finance sector on the best possible footing going forward,” Redwood said.

Currently, one of Houlihan Lokey's biggest mortgage-related assignments involves the liquidation of assets belonging to megaservicer Ditech Financial, which is operating under bankruptcy protection...

One former Freddie Mac executive told IMFnews: “But the really big question is what Treasury plans to do with its 79.9% ownership stake.”

The jumbo MBS will be the third of the year from the bank. Wells is also the nation's largest home lender and servicer...

The big question: What happens when this refi boom ends? Is it too early to ask?

Charges also were filed against former Live Well executives Eric Rohr and Darren Stumberger who entered a guilty plea in the case late last week and are now cooperating with investigators.

For the first half, the top five HECM lenders were American Advisors Group, One Reverse Mortgage, Synergy One, Reverse Mortgage Funding, and Fairway Independent Mortgage…

Redwood suggested changing the flat 5% risk-retention requirement on MBS with non-QMs to a standard based on the asset-level of loans in a deal.

The share price of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common had been in the tank all summer but last week spiked upwards on the news that the Treasury Department plan to recap-and-release the two is now (reportedly) on the desk of Larry Kudlow...