Despite heralding the investment made by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Guaranteed Rate will not say how much the PE firm invested or how large of a stake it acquired…

Mark Stafford, managing director of MS Capital Advisors: “Margin compression is real and many companies lost money in the first quarter.”

Fannie Mae: “We expect this will prompt businesses to turn to cost-cutting..."

Mortgage brokers actually gained some share in the government market…

A 34-year veteran of the home lending industry, Goulding also worked for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage…

Banks have been reducing their servicing for others since late 2009…

With razor-thin production margins becoming the norm this year, some originators are thinking about, or moving ahead with plans to trim the compensation levels of their most valuable asset: loan officers.

The incidence of defects in mortgage loan applications has decreased significantly in the last five years, according to First American Financial’s Loan Application Defect Index.

Are mortgage lenders in the financial services business? The answer from the Internal Revenue Service on that question will determine whether lenders organized as pass-through entities can take a significant deduction included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Originations of purchase mortgages are expected to increase this year even though interest rates and home prices continue to rise. “The underlying demand for buying a home is holding up, and will continue to do so, as long as the economy is generating solid job and income growth,” said Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac.