Originations

The speculation over whether Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren will be nominated as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau refuses to die.

BB&T Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C., said roughly half of its $1.5 billion in warehouse commitments are currently funded.

As a fallback position, the National Association of Home Builders is willing to accept limits on incentives builders can offer buyers that use their mortgage and title companies -- but only to keep HUD from taking more restrictive actions.

Hundreds of American Credit Union Mortgage Association members will convene on September 15-18 in Las Vegas to attend its national conference.

DocuLynx Inc., a provider of document archive and retrieval solutions, has acquired the docHarbor online and document management divisions of Anacomp, a company that specializes in business process solutions, for a purchase price of $27.5 million.

The title insurance industry collected $2.3 billion of premiums in the second quarter, down 8.5% from a year ago, according to new figures released by the American Land Title Association.

The trickle-down economic theory won't be at play when the recovery comes to the new home market, according to the weekly Housing Intelligence report from publisher Hanley Wood.

Redwood Trust Inc., Mill Valley, Calif., says in its new quarterly review that it likely will come to market with a $300 million jumbo MBS sometime in the fourth quarter.

Believe me, spending time preparing and planning is never easy. But they’re critical. As residents of the Gulf Coast we know this all too well. Why? Because this is hurricane season and we’re constantly making sure we have plenty of flashlights, batteries, water, plywood, duct tape, easy-to-fix foods and plenty of wine (no sense in not being comfortable)!

Mortgage companies added 2,300 full-time employees to their payrolls in July as refinancing applications swelled, compensating for a weak purchase money business.

A majority of the largest national banks tightened their underwriting standards on home mortgages during a 12-month period ending March 31, according to a new report released by the Comptroller of the Currency.

Changes in the Federal Housing Administration program, today's conservative underwriting and recent evidence of the wholesale channel's profitability could make it and the third-party origination business in general more attractive to some players—as it has for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Sun Prairie, Wis.

HSBC Holdings PLC is contemplating selling its "A" paper mortgage banking affiliate in Depew, N.Y., a sale that—if it comes off—would only include its servicing operation, which ranks 17th nationwide.

The GSE regulator Thursday issued new affordable goals that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to meet this calendar year.

Standard & Poor's Corp. this week added ZAIS Servicing Asset Management, Dallas, to its "Select" servicer list for firms working in the commercial mortgage specialty servicer space.

New York State Governor David Paterson has signed into law amendments to the state’s real estate agency disclosure law to take effect on January 1, 2011, which will permit consumers to give their advance consent to dual agency representation.

CP Federal Credit, Jackson, Miss., will give away a foreclosed home on Friday during a noon ceremony at its headquarters, as part of its "Wish Upon A Home" giveaway program.

Delinquency rates on commercial mortgages were mixed in the second quarter. The rate on banks' commercial and multifamily mortgages appears to have reached a plateau, while the delinquency rate for loans in commercial securities continued to climb during the period, according to the latest data from the MBA.

David Frase, executive vice president in charge of warehouse lending at Southwest Securities FSB, Dallas, has left the company, industry officials confirmed to National Mortgage News.

The National Association of Realtors' gauge of future home sales rose 5.2% in July after falling 28% since April when two federal tax credits for home buyers expired.