Excessive risk-based pricing, high private mortgage insurance premiums and lender credit overlays are locking out low-income borrowers and families of color from the conventional mortgage market, pushing them towards FHA as their only option, concludes a new study from the Center for Responsible Lending.

Freddie Mac had the biggest monthly increase at 22.9 percent…

Freddie CEO Donald Layton told Inside MBS & ABS that implementation of the FHFA directive “has largely been complete.”

Come June, Fannie Mae will cut a new dividend check to Uncle Sam...

CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney: “I don’t know why we call it the CFPB; that is not the name of the organization..."

Due to temporary standards established by the CFPB, mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs are treated as qualified mortgages even if they have higher debt-to-income ratios that would otherwise make them non-QMs…

In the first quarter of 2018, Freddie issued $63.9 billion of single-family MBS, a 37.2 percent sequential drop...

Matrix Financial Services is another nonbank rapidly climbing the GSE servicing ranks…

There’s been speculation that when the Trump administration picks Watt’s successor, one of the first things that person might do is impose a loan-size purchase limit on the two government-sponsored enterprises.

Even though the GSE posted a strong profit, it saw MBS issuance fall 37.2 percent in the first quarter...