Mortgages

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Mat Ishbia, a former college basketball player and coach, has adapted what he learned from Michigan State coach Tom Izzo to turn United Wholesale Mortgage into a leading originator.

A big investor in SWS Group has objected to the Dallas company's planned sale to Hilltop Holdings.

After a year in which bankers have voiced steady opposition to the qualified mortgage rule, more than a third now say they will make non-QM loans in targeted markets, a major reversal from the industry's past stance.

It took five years, but consumers finally are making their mortgage payments before credit card payments, according to recent analysis from TransUnion.

Prospective homeowners are increasingly more optimistic, with 38% of respondents to Fannie Mae's March 2014 National Housing Survey saying it is a good time to sell a home, compared to 26% a year ago.

The National Association of Realtors estimates that the Federal Housing Administration's 1.35% annual premium stopped at least 125,000 renters from buying a home last year.

Mortgage originations dropped to their lowest level in 14 years as of the end of February, but cash deals are keeping home sales volume afloat, according to a report from Black Knight Financial Services.

After slogging through several quarters of high expenses and shrinking profits, some lenders are now selling mortgage servicing rights to raise cash to cover payroll and expenses, industry sources say.

The apartment-lending units of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were among their few money makers after the U.S. housing collapse. Now they should help transform the U.S. mortgage industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prohibits actions aimed at circumventing loan officer compensation rules. One example was a lender who permitted teams of LOs to share commissions.

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Check out the full list of ON's fifth annual Top Originators Survey, highlighting the mortgage industry's most productive loan officers.

Mount Olympus Mortgage's Ben Anderson ranked No. 6 in the fifth annual Top Originators Survey. Check out the other loan officers who made the top 10 in this year's edition of the list!

David Norris led Nationstar's Greenlight Loans direct lending unit and will be chief executive officer of a similar division that dominates loanDepot's business.

Housing market trends continue to show improvement in February as housing prices stabilize and foreclosure starts decrease to 2005 levels, according to the March installment of the Obama administration's Housing Scorecard.

Unlicensed loan processor gets over six years in federal prison for his actions.

Efforts to help underwater borrowers with second liens have had little success, and the Treasury's authority to create new homeowner aid programs under the Troubled Asset Relief Program has expired.

Farmers & Merchants Bank's Michael Osorio ranked No. 17 in the fifth annual Top Originators Survey. As we count down this year's top originators, check out the other loan officers who made the cut in the latest installment of the list!

Despite a dramatic drop in loan volume, payroll reductions of 23,500 full-time employees since July appear relatively modest.