NMN Staff

The waivers to standard procedure will remain in place until December 2021.

The longtime senior advisor to the agency replaces Alfred Pollard, who retires in March.

Open Mortgage, Aces Quality Management, Verity Global Solutions, Cherry Creek Mortgage and InterLinc Mortgage Services all announced hirings and promotions.

Plus, 4Q earnings show strong mortgage volumes, growth forecasted for jumbo loan market and more.

From the CARES Act’s effects to the spate of nonbanks going public, these developments stand to shape how the playing field looks in 2021.

The number of nonbank mortgage lenders who launched IPOs or merged with SPACs took off like a rocket in the second half of the year.

Here are some of the more significant transactions that took place in a highly unusual year for the real estate finance business.

The data and analytics firm spent much of 2020 battling stakeholders Senator Investments and Cannae Holdings in a bitter war of words. Here’s a timeline of what went down.

Also: credit availability expands, mortgage apps slide and Nexsys Technologies releases home insurance verification tool Rocket Mortgage uses.

Plus: per-loan profits break a record and FHFA extends pandemic-related measures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would extend the measures until “at least” Jan. 21, 2021.

Experts in the field predict how some aspects of the market will develop in the coming year.

Meanwhile, October home sales are the strongest of 2020 and homebuilders pick up the pace.

Also: Freddie Mac CEO suddenly resigns, while Sheila Bair becomes chair of Fannie Mae's board.

Also: Waterstone Financial hires its fourth head of mortgage in two years.

Also: Fannie Mae announces imminent implementation of hedge accounting.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Midwest.

Learn how some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers Rankings' top 20 loan officers of the West.

Here's an early look at what technology developers will be doing to dazzle and impress lenders and servicers during the Mortgage Bankers Association's technology conference in Chicago.