Originations

While purchase volume is seeing its usual seasonal pickup, lower rates caused a spike in activity among existing homeowners looking to refinance.

First quarter volume was up 3% among eight depositories that reported so far, compared with models that predicted industry-wide drops as large as 13%.

Long-term home-based operations are more likely than they were prior in March of last year, but some origination and servicing professionals will return to the office, a recent survey suggests.

A private equity capital raise earlier this year gave the company a $3.3 billion valuation.

The market appears to be undergoing a shift away from refinances and remote operations, but the top producers interviewed for this article don’t plan to abandon either any time soon.

The government sponsored enterprise’s latest forecast calls for a nearly $4 trillion year for 2021.

Gene Thompson goes to deciding what the company's next steps are, rather than implementing them.

And with demand far outweighing supply, the average new-home purchase loan ascended to another record high.

The loan officers who brought in the highest volumes last year offer their perspectives on social media, the GSEs, loan channels and more.

Their numbers suggest that the quarter’s home lending may be stronger than industry forecasts for a 6 to 13% decline.