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In today’s mortgage market, job security is quite important. Many loan officers I talk to are having a great year, even better than last year which was decent.

Walter Investment Management, which controls subservicer Green Tree Financial, has added Reverse Mortgage Solutions to its stable of residential finance firms.

A non-partisan group says the Federal government’s efforts to prosecute subprime wrongdoers – particularly on Wall Street – has fallen short and is asking for new, tougher laws on white collar crime.

Third-party lender Stonegate Mortgage has purchased warehouse provider NattyMac.

Mortgage insurance may get a break from the new Basel III capital rules.

There is a movement toward retaining servicing rights benefits. It involves originators and the wider mortgage industry.

The FHFA study on single-family g-fees shows the fees paid by the five largest lenders averaged 26 basis points by yearend 2011, up 5 bps from the first quarter.

Since the housing bust began in earnest in 2008, mortgage related stocks, for the most part, have hemorrhaged in price, according to an analysis conducted by National Mortgage News.

Arbor Commercial Mortgage named Trevor Leslie Smith as director of lending in its Boston office.

M&A advisors tell us that the GNMA Eagle is a must for selling your firm.