Mark Fogarty

Life insurers have gotten burned in commercial lending before, but spectacular credit performance is reinforcing their persistent love of the niche.

The sequestration and political wrangling last year meant fewer direct RHS mortgages last year, while the safety of the federal eagle on guaranteed loans appealed to lenders.

A consortium of tribes and a central financing facility could tap the bond market for much-needed housing money.

Readers of this website have provided a wide range of feedback this week, ranging from thoughtful analysis to bon mots to arch corrections.

Jan. 10 has brought nine tough new servicing rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The big bank has more than twice as much Ginnie servicing volume as the second-place company in the niche.

Some content we ran this week not only was 100% wrong, according to a commenter, but came to us via a suspect source.

While year-to-year volume is flat, thousands of mortgages have been made on Native homelands in recent years, compared to dozens twenty years ago.

Website comments aren’t readers’ only venue for telling us how smart or dumb we are at NMN.

Florida continues to lead the nation in foreclosure inventory, but trailing it is not another sand state but rather the Garden State—New Jersey.

Consumers who refinanced their mortgages over the last year or so still saw stacks of paper on the closing table. Now, an unlikely agent of change may help push paperless adoption: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Wil Armstrong applies lessons learned while working for Mother Teresa to being the chief executive of a mortgage technology firm.

HMDA data show 34% of mortgage apps went unfunded last year, down from 40% in 2011.

A two-headed beast made up of the CFPB and the Fed is struggling for control of the mortgage industry. Here’s why the Fed should prevail.

The percentage of minorities getting mortgages has stayed flat the last couple of years. With credit as tight as it has been, that may not be so bad a showing.

There are signs of green shoots in Detroit on the housing front.

Sen. Bob Corker said he would resist attempts to weaken a 10% private capital requirement for the GSEs in his bill.

The mortgage industry is looking favorably on the latest Federal Reserve Board easing plan.

Has it been five years already? It has been five years since the federal government nationalized the mortgage industry by taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Anybody who thinks affordable housing equates to subprime housing should attend a conference by the Southwest Affordable Housing Group.