Freddie Mac, in particular, expects to issue a record volume of $25 billion in single-family risk-sharing transactions this year.

A Florida-based investor is touting the profits available from commercial MBS with distressed malls. The trade runs counter to the “mall shorts” that helped generate massive returns for some investors last year.

Moody’s Investors Service estimates more than $22 billion of utility cost recovery charge securitizations will be issued in 2022 and 2023.

The enterprise for the first time will make loans on new-built homes eligible for securitization under its green MBS program.

Lenders are increasingly using evaluations to determine home values rather than completing full appraisals. The evaluations carry risks for both lenders and borrowers, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office.

The market isn’t viewing publicly traded mortgage lenders favorably these days and that’s a problem for the one remaining IPO/SPAC candidate: Better.com.

Time to celebrate: Annual agency MBS issuance rose 10.1% from 2020 to a record $3.471 trillion in 2021.

When lenders opt for an evaluation rather than an appraisal, they often use AVMs...

In a red hot servicing market, bidding could be fierce...

Two nonbanks are trading accusations tied to the pilfering of staff, at least that’s how it started. Eventually, the case could be settled out of court but not before some damaging allegations get aired in public.