Radian agreed to buy Clayton in May 2014 for $305 million.

On average, the loans have seasoned just 1.9 months, one of the fastest turn times for a jumbo MBS in recent years…

In its proposed rulemaking, the CFPB clearly indicated it was not going to re-open the substance of the rule and address what it considered policy issues…

Issuance of new residential MBS and non-mortgage ABS rose sharply in the third quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. The market produced a total of $494.11 billion in new MBS and ABS during the third quarter, a 25.0 percent increase from the second quarter. That brought year-to-date production to $1.208 trillion, slightly ahead of the pace set during the same period in 2015. It was...[Includes one data table]

Freddie Mac’s third-quarter MBS business was up 36.0 percent from the previous period, thanks to a whopping 43.6 percent jump in purchase-mortgage business…

Cash-out refis are propping up the refi market, said one analyst.

In a letter to its shareholders, Fairholme called the GSEs “two of the best businesses ever owned by the funds.”

A $2 trillion year for mortgage originators? It might be…

The MSR package has a heavy West Coast concentration, MIAC said.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized $135.69 billion of single-family purchase mortgages during the third quarter, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of mortgage-backed securities disclosures by the two government-sponsored enterprises. That was up a hefty 26.2 percent from the previous quarter, and it represented the biggest quarterly flow of purchase mortgages to the GSEs since the housing market collapse. Although the loans were pooled in MBS issued during the third quarter, a significant number of them were actually originated during the April-June cycle. The third quarter typically has...[Includes three data tables]