Holding fixed-rate mortgages in portfolio was considered a dangerous practice for depositories, but no more.

The long awaited recovery in the jumbo MBS market may finally be here as more banks plan to issue securities.

Stable interest rates are making refinancing less attractive to the newest mortgage borrowers, which should keep prepayment rates very low.

The share of cash purchases of homes increased for five consecutive months, hitting 32.3 percent in February, based on the three-month moving average.

Historically, many banks have deducted expenses associated with REO, but all that may soon change thanks to a new IRS ruling.

Several members that recently bolted from the American Securitization Forum are forming a new trade group.

Redwood Trust is coming to the jumbo well once again. Its new MBS is roughly $577 million in size.

An estimated $203 billion in non-agency jumbo mortgages were originated in 2012, according to a new tally from Inside Mortgage Finance.

FHA funding accounted for 25 percent of home-purchase financing in January, based on the three-month moving average, according to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey. February numbers will be released shortly.

New Castle and Springleaf are teaming up to buy a huge portfolio of consumer and real estate loans from HSBC.