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Error findings related to income and employment reached a high point since Aces Quality Management started its report in 2016.

Sandra Thompson has won praise from homeownership advocates for suspending a fee imposed on borrowers that was meant to recoup Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's pandemic-related losses, among other actions she reversed. On Tuesday, President Biden said he will nominate her to be the permanent director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

There is no room to unfairly criticize the determination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to properly fulfill its regulatory roll in mortgage servicing, writes the founder of the Maine Attorney Saving Homes program.

The AOMT 2021-8 waterfall will distribute principal to A-1 through A-3 certificates at all times, and notes are taking a Fitch haircut amid inflated home values.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency agreed to examine how a national database used to track loan performance would hold up in an emergency after an audit that led its inspector general to express concern.

Following the announcement of a shift in her political ambitions, Attorney General Letitia James signaled to servicers that she’s watching compliance around pandemic-related mortgage relief closely.

Activity is down 20% from one year ago, driven by a 65% falloff in rate and term refinancings, Black Knight said.

Founded in the wake of the global financial crisis, KBRA has issued more than 51,000 ratings representing almost $3 trillion in rated issuance since 2010.

“Rent of shelter” — a category that makes up a third of the CPI basket of goods and services prices — is up 3.9% from November 2020. That’s the most in 14 years but still pales in comparison to many private-sector metrics.

More than half of respondents to a recent Arizent survey think one-stop shops will be the biggest disruptor in the next three years, followed by all-cash purchase programs and iBuyers.