FHFA Director Mel Watt is urging the mortgage industry “to get ready now to ensure smooth, successful implementation.”

It’s not as though some Congressman or Senator is about to introduce consensus GSE legislation...

Nearly all of the loans are 30-year fixed-rate mortgages and have seasoned for an average of 2.1 months.

California receivables account for 22.5 percent of the collateral based on number of loans…

It’s almost April and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, has yet to introduce his GSE reform bill...

Fannie Mae adjusted its automated underwriting services last summer to make more loans with higher debt-to-income ratios eligible for approval without lenders needing to provide compensating factors.

More Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders have initiated lawsuits against the government for the Treasury sweep of the mortgage giants’ profits.

Housing-finance reform appears to be in the process of a slow death for 2018 partly because of the pending departure of key players.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported this week that the GSEs completed 67,569 foreclosure prevention actions in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Former Fannie Mae executive and critic of the government-sponsored enterprises’ credit-risk transfer programs, Tim Howard, said on his blog this week that CRTs only help “sustain what has become a very profitable program for Wall Street firms and capital market investors.”