However, for the six other loan types tracked by the Fed, mortgage underwriting standards were largely unchanged…

An estimated $46 billion in ARMs were originated in the first quarter of 2016, down 2.1 percent from the previous quarter…

Investors in Freddie (and Fannie Mae) common and preferred who bought their shares as a speculative investment are still wondering: Hey, when do we get some of that money?

Quicken stated: “The reality is that this decision will have no effect on how we conduct our business.”

Impac said that while it sells production, it is now retaining more than 80.0 percent of its mortgage servicing rights.

Rob Branthover, a managing director at Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp., noted that purchase-mortgage originators are doing well…

Two Harbors has been a major player on the post-crisis jumbo MBS market and was even the top-ranked jumbo MBS issuer in the first half of 2016…

Caliber executive William Pendleton noted the nonprime MBS recently issued by Lone Star Funds (which owns Caliber) will help the lender significantly reduce interest rates on new originations.

Smaller depositories held 8.0 percent of the banking industry’s total mortgage servicing assets in 2015, up from a share of less than 2.0 percent as recently as 2009.

Nonprime lender Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions is now offering a “no-income” loan to investors with credit scores as low as 660...