Next week, I’m onboarding a new senior team member at HousingWire. This new leader will be taking over a function that I’ve been leading for quite awhile. I’m excited for the new energy, creativity and skills, and I’m giving a lot of thought on how to set up a new manager for success. Through the le

Ginnie Mae, which manages the government-guaranteed portfolio of forward and reverse mortgage-backed securities (MBS), announced this week at a National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) event that it will release initial details of its forthcoming Home Equity Conversion Mortgage-backed S

Mortgage lenders First Financial Lending and Greystone Mortgage filed a class-action-seeking lawsuit this week accusing credit reporting agency Equifax of maintaining a monopoly in the market for electronic income and employment verification (VOIE).   The case is tied to a strong increase in the cos

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements declined by 4.2% in March, a dynamic primarily driven by an drop in endorsements from the wholesale side of the business even as the retail side saw a month-over-month improvement in originations. This is according to data compiled by Reverse Marke