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.

Will a private conventional MBS market ever happen? If GSE g-fees keep rising, yes.

The American Securitization Forum, a high profile trade group that focuses on MBS issues, is in turmoil with several of its board members quitting.

Credit Suisse came to market with its first jumbo MBS deal of the year with Quicken Loans dominating the collateral.

Wells Fargo has not given up on mortgage lending JVs after all and has hired someone to manage them.