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- Sep 16-17, 2025|San Diego, CA
HUD Secretary Scott Turner issued five mortgagee letters pulling back on 12 Federal Housing Administration policies that drive up the cost for homebuyers.
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The increase reflects a broader trend that rating agency analysts are watching closely as depository ties to other types of financial institutions grow.
May 22
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The number of major housing markets with annual home price declines is the largest since late 2023, when average mortgage rates were above 7.5%.
May 22
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Panelists at the Mortgage Bankers Association's conference credited investors for helping create the conditions strengthening performance of non-QM portfolios.
May 22
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The state's regulator said the insurer must show it will cover more homeowners, and be more transparent. Consumer advocates want more concessions, saying the insurance crisis can't be solved on the backs of homeowners.
May 22
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Getting settlement agents and other stakeholders involved was a challenge, but e-note use has finally become routine for some mortgage lenders buying loans.
May 21
Only 20% of the Top Producers in the National Mortgage News survey were under 40, while almost half were between 41 and 50, and 30% even older.
Those who raced ahead of the pack of loan originators last year went the distance by offering exceptional customer service, catering to niche pockets of demand in the market.
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The San Francisco-based bank was long hamstrung by a regulatory order that kept it under $1.95 trillion of assets. Now Wells can hit the gas on business lines it had kept idle.
June 3
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The software firm will employ Wolters Kluwer's technology that allow it to offer hybrid closings as well as remote online notarizations through its platform.
June 3
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The Detroit company intends to pay at least $1.9 billion of the servicer's senior notes due through 2028, and could cover another $3 billion due through 2032.
June 3
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The new notes redeem older ones issued in 2018 and address the kind of near-term obligation that analysts have monitored closely at nonbank mortgage firms.
June 3
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The defunct Trident Mortgage, whose obligations were handled by Home Services of America, was accused of "systemic racism" in lending around Philadelphia.
June 3
