Originations

Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled $38.7 billion in February, up 1% from January,

Bliss Sawyer been working on a new e-book and recently wrote up the chapter on social media.

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

A Dallas woman who represented herself as a real estate investor to run a scheme that defrauded residential mortgage lenders has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas said that $10 million in Affordable Housing Program grants are now available to support housing and community development for struggling borrowers and cities.

Redwood Trust is preparing its fourth private-label residential mortgage-backed securitization of the year.

Sales of single-family homes in Connecticut rose 14% to 1,519 during the first month of this year.

A GOP budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan calls for the winding down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and higher fees on FHA-insured loans.

Bank of Commerce Mortgage officially changed its name to Commerce Mortgage.

We're hearing online lenders’ reputations grow publicly with every failure, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw.

The National Fair Housing Alliance and the Consumer Federation of America are adding to the chorus of supporters urging Congress to renominate Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a second term.

An increasing number of wealthy Eastern European homebuyers are looking for crisis-induced U.S. real estate opportunities.

Boston’s real estate market is seeing a boom in construction as developers financed with cheap debt seek to profit from a growing workforce of educated young adults.

A post on the Mortgage Grapevine from Txrelittttter discusses a situation this mortgage broker had with a client.

Carrington Mortgage Services launched a new program that offers brokers and borrowers shorter processing times to close a loan.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance reached an agreement with a broker who violated the state’s Residential Mortgage Act.

Industry groups are urging the House and Senate appropriators to include $5 billion in additional commitment authority for the FHA multifamily and health care programs to prevent a possible shutdown of those loan programs.

Ally Bank has reached an agreement to sell a portfolio of more than $85 billion in agency mortgage servicing rights to Ocwen Financial Corp. for roughly $585 million.

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