Compliance & Regulation

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods expects the Home Affordable Refinance Program will continue boosting gain-on-sale margins for mortgage bankers.

A bill that would accelerate the process to foreclose mortgages on vacant and abandoned residential properties in New Jersey has been signed by Gov. Chris Christie.

A Fannie Mae survey suggests improved customer attitudes and economic expectations are key to how the mortgage marketplace will look like in 2013.

The mortgage market is responding to future uncertainty by restructuring their processes.

The Dodd-Frank Act has single handedly kept mortgage lenders and servicers on their tiptoes in the past few years and is expected to do the same in 2013.

Thirty-year conventional prepayment speeds overall dropped 8% in the latest month.

FHA chief Carol Galante wants to have the Federal Housing Administration shrink its market share.

The decision may prove pivotal to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in recouping a small portion of the more than $12 billion of losses it suffered in the wake of IndyMac's collapse.

The White House has been unhappy, to some degree, with Edward DeMarco because of his refusal to allow the GSEs to write down the principal on underwater loans as a restructuring tool.

Ed Pinto says 40% of FHA loans are subprime and are hurting neighborhoods.