CFPB officials claim that lenders will originate non-qualified mortgages, though industry participants have been skeptical due to the liability involved with such loans. Raj Date, the former deputy director of the CFPB, detailed how his new firm will originate non-QMs.

HUD and FHA offices will be closed on Friday. Foreclosure activity was up and down in May. And the "nerdy" reference behind Fenway Summer.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, countered that a purely non-agency mortgage market would be “a disaster to our economy.”

Freddie Mac's low activity fee could add more than $2 million to its bottom line.

Thanks to rising home values and lower delinquencies, investors are gobbling up subprime MBS, causing prices to rise.

Raj Date's new mortgage firm bills itself as a consumer finance company and is stacked with former high-level employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Will the nation's megabanks begin shedding mortgage workers if loan applications don't rise soon?

The top contributors to the new Redwood Trust jumbo deal include George Mason Mortgage, Cole Taylor Mortgage, W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital and PrimeLending.

Wells Fargo was the top-ranked non-agency jumbo lender in the first quarter with $9.67 billion, nearly double the next closest lender.

Cole Taylor Mortgage is getting serious about the servicing business. It purchased a portfolio from Liberty Savings and plans to start its own in-house platform.