Mortgages

Walker & Dunlop originated its record largest deal in 77 years of business.

The partnership with MAX Exchange is designed to enable community banks to sell their loans and get better pricing.

Mortgage credit availability increased in March, the Mortgage Bankers Association's monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index found.

The complexity in proving whether a loan officer is "outside" has caused many employers to abandon the classification - a move both unwise and unnecessary.

Glenn Costello, a structured finance veteran cited through the years in the pages of the Asset Securitization Report for his sharp analysis, particularly of residential mortgage-backeds, died on April 6.

A subsidiary of Chimera Investment Corp. has just closed a $268.7 million RMBS, according to a private placement memorandum obtained from a market source.

A new report from analytics firm CoreLogic predicts that national home prices will experience a healthy rise from January 2015 to January 2016.

The number of borrowers who could reap the benefits of refinancing has grown to 7.1 million as interest rates have fallen, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Fannie Mae plans to sell pools of nonperforming single-family mortgages.

After drastic payroll reductions in December, lenders appear to be preparing for a better spring.

Navy Federal Credit Union closed over $1 billion worth of mortgages in March, and $2.5 billion year-to-date.

The shift in market composition is fueling concerns that if defaults rise, the Federal Housing Administration would have a harder time making lenders eat the losses on poorly underwritten loans.

While arrangements to finance MSRs may represent the cheapest way to address liquidity, other avenues of adding cash may be available and necessary.

Freddie Mac's next STACR offering will offer investors exposure to actual losses on residential mortgages, something the mortgage giant says investors have been asking for.

Clayton Homes, the manufactured-housing business owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., uses aggressive sales and lending practices that traps some borrowers in homes that are difficult to resell, the Seattle Times reported.

Holders of servicing rights will soon demand more than the basics from these third-party providers. Subservicers may be expected to help promote an institution's nonmortgage products or provide portfolio analytics.

ReverseVision has created an operations team within its company to improve its capacity management about a month after its RV Express system's last reported outage.

Managers need to position their team of loan originators to capitalize on getting the business that's out there right now.

Chase has provided more than $2.2 billion of the $4 billion it owes in consumer relief credit, according to the monitor of JPMorgan Chase's settlement.

The mortgage and title industries are creating training programs to teach those in the home sales process this is not just a swapping out of two forms for new ones.