The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the lookout for lenders that facilitate occupancy fraud as a way to avoid the agency's ability-to-repay rule.

The new survey of more than 2,000 real estate agents found that respondents recommend specific mortgage providers for 59 percent of their homebuyer transactions.

The disclosure regime envisioned by the SEC prompts even greater privacy concerns than the initial proposal, according to a number of non-agency MBS issuers.

In a report released Wednesday morning, the servicing settlement monitor said Green Tree failed eight metrics tested in the second half of 2013.

In case you didn’t notice, the price of Fannie and Freddie common rose about 5 percent Tuesday, after Watt spoke. In trading Wednesday, they were up again...

Brett Nicholas, president of Redwood Trust, said the real estate investment trust plans to issue its next jumbo MBS around June.

Banks were largely unwilling to sell off HEL holdings in 2013, according to MountainView Capital Group, an advisor on whole loan sales.

Nationstar made “right-party” contact with delinquent borrowers to determine their eligibility for HAMP in only 65 percent of such cases from March 2013 through February, the government found.

A portion of the loans being bought by SLS are tied to 11 non-agency mortgage-backed securities.

Despite regulatory "noise," Walter Investment noted that it received approvals to complete servicing transfers during the first quarter of 2014.