Secondary

First American Financial Corp. has priced a $250 million debt offering which is scheduled to close on Jan. 29.

Redwood Trust sold $619.2 million of home-loan securities in its second deal this month.

The Federal Reserve purchased $14.1 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities over the past week.

Most mortgage officials feared Jan. 21, 2013 much more than the abortive Doomsday that was supposed to have happened a month earlier.

Updates from the Consumer Financial Protection Board and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Secondary market platform Tradeweb released numbers showing to-be-announced mortgage-backed securities trading reached a record high of $24 trillion in 2012.

San Bernardino County has rejected a controversial plan to use eminent domain for the seizure of underwater mortgages.

Residential Capital agreed to pay $297.6 million to end opposition by government-run loan investor Fannie Mae to the sale of ResCap’s main business.

There were two events in the weeks leading up to the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers annual convention which would have an impact on attendees and their immediate future.

The author sees elements of mutual fund sales in the commercial originations business.