With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buybacks at post-crisis lows, mortgage sellers should reevalu-ate their repurchase reserves for a number of reasons that could impact their business, according to mortgage industry experts. With loan quality significantly improved and underwriting standards tight-ened, many lenders are likely overestimating potential buybacks and carrying excess reserves.

PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, through three affiliate companies, has entered into a structured deal to finance Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights and excess servicing spread.

Progressives are worried that in 2019 a new Federal Housing Finance Agency director will takeover, undoing much of what they like about the current system…

The first quarter could turn out to be a barn-burner for MSR sales…

Commercial banks and savings institutions reported another decline in the volume of home mortgages they repurchased from investors during the third quarter, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call-report data. The banking industry repurchased or made indemnification for $698.3 million of single-family loans during the third quarter, down 2.0 percent from the previous period. That was the lowest quarterly repurchase figure since ... [Includes one data chart]

Mortgage lenders seem somewhat cheerier about the new year than the dismal scientists…

The volume of single-family home loans flowing into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities rose unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Fact: Fannie and Freddie securitized more purchase-money mortgages in 2017 – $472.77 billion – than in any year since 2007.

And now for the bad news: The lower corporate tax rate will force Fannie and Freddie to write down the value of their deferred tax assets by $15.3 billion…

The delinquency rate on the MSR portfolio is 1.02 percent...