We continue to hear plenty of talk about mortgage mergers and acquisitions with deal announcements likely to come between early July and late August.

Is the stock of PHH Corp. so depressed that it's a screaming "buy"?

“Rather than earning on the front end, they’re increasing margins on the secondary sale," said mortgage analyst Ken Richey.

What does the future hold for the hedge fund-owned Prospect Mortgage?

The market for large "legacy" MSR deals appears to be ice cold. Then again, last week there were rumors that a $50 billion transaction might be in the works.

Mortgage REITs found a cheap source of funding in the Federal Home Loan Bank system. But will the FHFA permanently block their access or just restrict it?

We talked a handful of wholesalers and were told the figure is much lower – in the range of 2.2 percent to 2.5 percent. Broker-sourced loans account for less than 10 percent of all loans funded today,

But do Fannie and Freddie really represent a faulty business model, as the White House and Treasury Department keep declaring?

Will an increase in non-QM lending arrive in time to bolster the mortgage industry?

It is unclear exactly when Jay Memmott left Seterus.