MBA expressed reservations about FHFA’s pursuit of examination authority over nonbank servicers, efforts to ensure a level playing field and more...

Wells Fargo layoffs hit home lending division; Black Knight launches tool to confront appraisal bias; mortgage delinquencies hit record low in March; and more...

The agency’s finalized strategic plan is almost unchanged from the draft version, despite recommendations and criticisms from mortgage industry stakeholders.

Megabanks topped the list of GSE servicers in the first quarter of 2022, but they continued to lose market share to nonbank servicers. (Includes two data charts.)

Early comments suggest widespread concern that the proposed increases in liquidity and capital requirements for GSE seller/servicers are unnecessary and maybe counterproductive.

The industry veteran asks: If the GSEs lose their largest buyer, where will the money come from to support the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage?

The new repeat-sale index includes both GSE and non-GSE transactions and is augmented by appraisal data in regions with few sales. Plus, it’s free.

Economists use risk-based models of future GSE cash flows to calculate costs of the government’s backing of catastrophic losses.

Allowing the FHLBanks to offer letters of credit backed by locally issued tax-exempt bonds could speed work on waste and water treatment facilities, road and bridge repairs and other municipal infrastructure.

The deal will help support the development of 1,500 units of senior housing in Arizona, more than half of which will be affordable to renters with incomes lower than 50% of AMI.