The cryptocurrency Bitcoin recently surged above $19,500 a unit for a short time, briefly surpassing the “tulip mania” of the Netherlands in the 17th century to become the biggest recorded asset bubble in the history of Western civilization. That caused a number of participants in that space to slip into “irrational exuberance” mode, going to such extremes as not only buying Bitcoin with their credit cards but also taking out mortgages to snap up as much of the cryptocurrency as they possibly could ...

The volume of single-family home loans flowing into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities rose unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Fact: Fannie and Freddie securitized more purchase-money mortgages in 2017 – $472.77 billion – than in any year since 2007.

And now for the bad news: The lower corporate tax rate will force Fannie and Freddie to write down the value of their deferred tax assets by $15.3 billion…

Clayton reviewed 481 mortgages that are slated for securitization…

The delinquency rate on the MSR portfolio is 1.02 percent...

Angel Oak has securitized $850 million of non-QM loans since 2015.

When Fannie and Freddie request a fresh draw of taxpayer funds from Treasury to deal with their DTA "problem," it will poison the well for conservative Republicans...

Mortgage lenders pressing to get compliant with the new data collection and reporting require-ments under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act got a bit of a reprieve, as the Consumer Financial Pro-tection Bureau and the other prudential regulators announced they would take “good-faith efforts” ap-proach to enforcement.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will bolster their 2018 earnings by a combined $3 billion thanks to GOP tax reform legislation signed into law by President Trump in late December, according to calcula-tions from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.