Bank of America is retaining more of its GSE-eligible loans, though the strategy can result in short-term decreases to mortgage-banking income.

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…

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

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.

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

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

The transaction was mentioned during New Residential’s earnings call Monday morning and confirmed by a source...

S&P said the revisions are intended to better reflect the evolution of the U.S. residential mortgage market over the past several years…

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

At this pace, you can expect that by yearend New Rez will be the nation’s second largest servicer, at least in terms of ownership rights…