Origination

Independent mortgage bankers’ net income declined 60 basis points between the second and third quarters, Richey May data show. Some penny pinching is in order.

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.

Just a little something that loan officers can hand out to real estate agents during the holiday season.

Investors pay a premium for these Ginnie Mae securities, a Walter Investment Management executive says.

The percentage of U.S. commercial real estate loans that are 30 or more days late has dropped 268 basis points since reaching an all-time high of 10.3% in the summer of 2012.

The rapid increase in originations may be the problem. New-issue commercial mortgage-backed securities could total $87 billion in 2013, up 81% from 2012's $48 billion.

The purchases in the fifth transaction this year created out of prime-jumbo U.S. home loans represent a switch from REITs’ typical strategy of acquiring just the highest-yielding slices in such deals.

Former Washington Mutual chief Kerry Killinger and two other bank officials are talking with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the last chapter in the government’s probe into the financial institution's collapse.

The federal agency has launched new programs to facilitate public-private financing that will help boost “green” multifamily building development.

Appreciation will slow going forward as seasonal factors come into play.