According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, FHA has nearly exhausted its $25 billion authority for FY 2013 to insure multifamily, risk share and health care programs.

In other words, if Fannie keeps earning money at this rate, it could repay its “debt” to Treasury by year-end or the first quarter of next year.

According to figures compiled by IMF, U.S. Bank Home saw its residential fundings slip to $18.62 billion in the second quarter compared to $22.46 billion in the first.

Redwood Trust said it expects to hit its goal of acquiring $8 billion in non-agency jumbos in 2013, “but it won’t be easy" company officials said.

Who says that wholesale lending through loan brokers is dead? Carrington Mortgage and other firms are expanding in the sector.

For the first time in six years, the four surviving private MIs reported a combined profit on their domestic MI business during 2Q13.

The SEC said the deal has taken nearly $70 million in losses – the greatest loss rate of any comparable securitization from Bank of America. An additional $50 million in losses are expected.

In its earnings release, Freddie said it will not capture its deferred tax asset (DTA) valuation allowance which now stands at $28.6 billion.

“It is difficult to project how many HARP-eligible loans will ultimately be refinanced,” the FHFA IG writes in a new report.

Two Harbors revealed that it is advanced talks to purchase a potentially significant portfolio of mortgage servicing rights later this year.