The MMIF had $30.86 billion in capital resources at the end of fiscal 2015. HUD does not provide updated figures on the fund’s capital resources through the year…

Bank of America’s mortgage division posted $297 million in residential income for 3Q compared to $267 million in 2Q and $290 million in the third quarter of last year.

The court’s reasoning in the case casts doubt on the validity of the FHFA’s structure, according to a report from Compass Point Research & Trading.

Some good news for default servicing: For all the loans that are out there, there will always be excessive debt, illness, divorce, unemployment, or some other disruptive factor, noted one expert.

Freddie names NPL winners while Fannie announces another NPL sale. With all Message Manager reports now available on Fannie Mae Connect, the old system is about to sunset. The FHLBanks report on their 2015 low-income housing activity. FHFA tapped into social media for a last-ditch effort to make sure struggling homeowners knew about its principal modification program before deadline passed. Fannie's economists score a repeat award victory. And New York clergy speak out against GSE reform.

Based on the seller’s past performance, California, Texas and Florida will account for 30 percent of the receivables. Bids are due Oct. 18.

Three GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Countrywide?

Further, the decision opens up prior actions taken by the bureau to potential challenges to the validity of past guidance, consent orders, fines and rules.

In the latest round of housing reform proposals, the Milken Institute recommends the best way forward is to just amend the charters of the GSEs, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Ginnie Mae. This is a different twist on the Urban Institute’s proposal earlier this year, which suggests completely merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a government corporation that pushes its credit risk into the private market. Authors Michael Bright, director in the Milken Institute’s Center for Financial Markets, and Ed DeMarco, senior fellow at the institute and former FHFA acting director, said those amendment changes include turning the GSEs into mutuals owned and operated by their seller-servicers and making Ginnie Mae a stand-alone government corporation.

Reversing at least temporarily a long-running trend in the mortgage market, the four biggest banks in the U.S. expanded their presence in the GSE single-family market in the third quarter of 2016. Together, Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup delivered $61.88 billion of single-family loans into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities during the third quarter, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis and ranking. That was up a hefty 45.0 percent from the second quarter, well above the 29.7 percent increase in overall MBS issuance by the two GSEs. The four megabanks, all with over $1 trillion in assets, expanded their combined GSE footprint by 2.2 percent from the second quarter.