GSE watchers anticipate the salary cap legislation will be signed into law this fall.

The trend continues: Work for the CFPB for a year or so and then cash out...

Two companies – Wells Fargo and Bank of America – accounted for virtually all of the decline in bank MSR holdings during the second quarter.

Recently, Home Point added a large retail lending team from Great Plains Bank and Newman promised that “we have another large retail team scheduled to come on in the next several weeks.”

Irony or good business?: Ocwen's mortgage customers are located in the U.S., but the back office staff processing their loans are mostly overseas.

Regulatory fears are driving the desire by some owners/CEOs to exit the mortgage business, but we’ve heard that refrain before.

Many left-leaning politicians have complained that Wall Street executives got off the hook for the financial crisis...

The Mortgage Bankers Association ended its last fiscal year in the black with $7.7 million in net assets, a marked improvement from the negative $3.8 million it had when the year began. However, according to a review of MBA’s past tax returns by Inside Mortgage Finance, the trade group has its work cut out if it wants to return to the halcyon days before the housing bust when it boasted $63.3 million in net assets, a cushion that was depleted thanks to the industry’s downturn and a disastrous investment in a new headquarters building back in 2010. MBA officials continue...

Coester filed suit against the Virginia Real Estate Appraiser Board, charging that the regulator is engaged in “a conspiracy to restrain and monopolize trade” and is operating in violation of antitrust laws.

Company CEO Mat Ishbia noted that the privately held company plans to continue a “strong pace” of hiring at the beginning of 2016.