Perhaps the new Treasury secretary finally looked at the numbers, realizing that Fannie and Freddie – wards of the government since September 2008 – forked over roughly $20 billion to Uncle Sam…

Deephaven CEO Matt Nichols is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Some analysts believe the Supreme Court’s ruling will result in the filing of new claims, but the Buckley Sandler law firm sees it differently...

The number of FHA loans 30-60 days past due declined by 28.4 percent, lowering the delinquency rate by 1.51 percentage points…

The Mortgage Bankers Association, for its part, expressed strong support for some provisions of the Hensarling bill…

Since the fall of 2008, Treasury has controlled the senior preferred stock in Freddie and Fannie, making the U.S. government the de facto owner of the two - and the linchpin to the housing and mortgage markets.

If Mr. Cooper was the first choice, what were the others?

While jumbo production fell on a sequential basis, many lenders saw a gain when compared to the same quarter a year earlier…

The regulator cautioned that a large downpayment alone isn’t sufficient to prove a borrower’s ability to repay a non-QM that is based on the consumer’s assets.

Stevens credited the Federal Housing Finance Agency with making “significant progress” in fixing the flaws of Fannie and Freddie...