Since Fairholme filed its “takings” case the government, Uncle Sam has turned over 48,000 documents totaling more than 500,000 pages.

According to one advisor: “I do think a thaw is on, but if you threw it on the grill, it would still be pretty tough because it’s not fully defrosted.”

Fannie and Freddie are still worth less than social media darling Snap, but the gap is narrowing...

Among the top 30, LoanCare had the largest increase to its jumbo servicing portfolio…

Fairholme extolled the GSE’s massive fourth quarter profits of almost $10 billion, and called them “indispensable” to the mortgage insurance industry…

Perhaps, residential servicers should receive 33 basis points for servicing Fannie/Freddie loans, not 25 bps...

"You can't overload the human brain," said newly minted HUD secretary Ben Carson. And there was more...

Cowen notes: “…this latest flare up reinforces our view that Treasury is unlikely in 2017 to unilaterally change the profit sweep at Fannie and Freddie…”

Although Freedom is private, a few years back it launched a publicly traded REIT called Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment, which lately has been trading near its 52-week high.

Banc of California’s mortgage division generated $150 million a year in revenue…