The average loan size is $215,080, the average loan-to-value ratio 72 percent. The first round of bidding is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 25.

Norcom wants its wholesale account executives to be in the office, not traveling the roads.

Bettenburg earned a base salary plus bonuses of roughly $781,742, according to the S-1 statement.

“Sadly, the impact of QMs [qualified mortgages] will never been quantified since most LOs will not originate borderline loans,” said New Jersey broker Brian Benjamin.

At the FHFA, Singh was involved in strategic planning to help attract private capital to the mortgage industry, a key goal of former Acting Director Edward DeMarco…

Miller said the GSEs' profitability also is "driven by income from their retained portfolios, which benefit from being funded through Treasury capital support at low rates the private market cannot obtain."

The number of mortgage companies in California rose 7.8 percent on a sequential basis. Nationwide, there are 392,896 federally registered mortgage loan officers…

Fannie and Freddie: They keep earning money but in the eyes of the FHFA, large risks still remain.

Can James Furash, another former top Countrywide executive, pull a Stan Kurland, and turn AmeriHome into a mortgage juggernaut?

Specifically, the mortgages will be above the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loan limit of $625,500. But before Redwood can buy its first jumbo loan, the Federal Housing Finance Agency must sign off on the effort.