Origination

ON's fifth annual Top Originators Survey highlights the mortgage industry's most productive loan officers.

Latest forecasts for 2013 estimate $1 trillion in origination with many concerned it will drift lower over time.

Home prices have come back, but how strong and for how long? Freddie Mac has created a quick way to get a handle on the national and local housing markets.

With more reliable loan data, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have greater confidence that borrowers would not default. In return, lenders would receive a juicy carrot: fewer buyback requests.

Mortgage originators marketing campaigns and materials should reflect the professional nature of the business if you do not want to be seen as a commodity.

Commerce Mortgage appointed 28-year industry veteran Shabi Asghar as president of its wholesale real estate lending.

Redwood Trust, the biggest issuer of U.S. home-loan securities without government backing last year, ended a four-month absence from the market with a $342 million transaction.

There is growing evidence that Washington is making the same mistake with respect to the housing and mortgage markets.

First mortgages increased 2.8% from a year earlier in February, the largest year-over-year uptick since September 2008.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is striking an optimistic tone for mortgage finance reform, saying she’s hopeful that a Senate Banking Committee plan to overhaul the market could make it to the chamber floor for a vote this year.