The Lede

MarketWatch, Feb. 29, 2016--Riquier, Andrea Since the crisis, banks have increasingly stepped away from mortgage lending. Companies often called "nonbanks," or "mortgage bankers," like Quicken and Nationstar, are stepping into that void. There are more players in the mortgage market now, said Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO David Stevens, and that distributes risk much more broadly.

Time, Feb. 29, 2016--Wolff-Mann, Ethan The "Trump" name has appeared in quite a few businesses. It's been on skyscrapers, hotels, a failed airline, a Virginia winery, a golf course built on a landfill, and a sketchy "university," to name a few. Among the Trump businesses that have gone belly up is Trump Mortgage, LLC which had a brief life starting in 2006, just before the housing crisis.

New York Post, Feb. 29, 2016 Ocwen Financial is again being probed by regulators over fees and expenses related to liquidated loans and bank-foreclosed properties, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday.

National Mortgage Professional, Feb. 29, 2016--Hall, Phil Warren Buffett forcefully defended his Clayton Homes manufactured housing operation this weekend in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, citing data to support his claims of a well-run operation with minimal hiccups.

National Mortgage News, Feb. 29, 2016--Sinnock, Bonnie After imposing a virtual moratorium on adding new issuers, Ginnie Mae is again accepting applications from mortgage companies seeking to pool loans for securitization and servicing.

National Mortgage News, Feb. 29, 2016--Passy, Jacob Ocwen Financial Corp. and Walter Investment Management Corp. both recorded full-year losses in 2015, though that is where comparisons between the two companies cease.

Reuters, Feb. 29, 2016--Mutikani, Lucia Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes fell to their lowest level in a year in January amid a persistent shortage of properties for sale, which could slow the housing market ahead of the spring selling season.

HousingWire, Feb. 29, 2016--Swanson, Brena The results for the 2016 Oscars are in, and The Big Short won Best Adapted Screenplay. But despite the new Hollywood proof that the film is impressive, it doesn't mean that the movie is the most accurate source for how the financial crisis unfolded.

Hartford Business Journal, Feb. 29, 2016--Seay, Gregory A recent Connecticut Supreme Court ruling affirming the state's imposition of higher realty-recording fees on an electronic mortgage registry will preserve a vital revenue stream for the state and its municipalities, but also maintains higher closing costs for many borrowers, experts say.