The latest, a $406.1 million security with collateral from Guaranteed Rate, hit the market Tuesday.

UWM believes it controls margins in the wholesale space...

Reasons? Many borrowers are reaching the end of their forbearance periods...

According to the Oakleaf Group, an analytics firm, governing documents for many non-agency MBS don’t include an explanation on how to calculate the fair market value...

Institutional investors are in line to purchase roughly 7,000 single-family properties in Zillow’s fix-and-flip inventory. Or maybe not...

With margins expected to decline, mortgage companies are looking to cut costs. Options include outsourcing and automation.

Lenders are at the mercy of United Wholesale Mortgage’s pricing decisions, according to UWM’s president and CEO; Finance of America is seeing better returns from reverse mortgage lending than from traditional mortgages; the IRS released guidance on the Homeowner Assistance Fund.

Ocwen, which had plans to ramp up its clean-up calls of non-agency MBS, put the activity on hold following a pricing issue with Deutsche Bank, a trustee for the MBS.

S&P recently downgraded its view of home prices at the national level to overvalued from undervalued. How rating services view home prices plays a role in credit enhancement levels for non-agency MBS.

Barclays was an active issuer of non-agency MBS in the lead-up to 2008, but the firm hasn't issued a deal with newer loans since then.