Although BLS reported declines, recent interviews conducted by IMFnews suggest that some nondepositories are in a hiring mode this spring, especially for retail loan officers.

How many more of W.J. Bradley's TRID-error loans will be sold in the scratch-and-dent market?

Can (and will) Congress act to fix the TRID mess?

The REIT noted that Nicholas “led the team that built Redwood’s residential loan and capital markets platforms.”

Mortgage deregulation ahead? GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, has tapped former Texas senator Phil Gramm as an economic advisor...

Employment and pay prospects are looking up for loan brokers as well.

SWBC is looking to hire 40-plus technology workers.

Then again, there are doubts the legislation will ever be enacted.

Don't like the housing sales figures? Blame Trump and Bernie...

When it comes to attracting and retaining top loan originator talent in the era of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it looks like independent shops may be the game to beat. One key issue now is whether depository institutions will step up to compete for the top talent in the mortgage space. “If we look back to 2008-2009, the brokers fled as quickly as they could to the independents, the depositories, just everywhere they could, to be able to operate and manage their business,” Drew Waterhouse, managing director of Hammerhouse LLC, said during an Inside Mortgage Finance webinar late last week. As the playing field has become more level with all the different regulations that have been brought to bear since then, “you see...