It's only a matter of time before the White House officially nominates acting Ginnie Mae president Michael Bright to be the permanent head of the agency...

Investor Pershing Square Capital should be happy. The firm owns roughly 9.98 percent of Fannie common and 9.77 percent of Freddie.

However, Hensarling is adamant that the plug be pulled on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

The FHFA said it’s working with Fannie and Freddie to “develop processes to identify and align those enterprise programs, policies, and practices that could materially affect prepayments.”

We understand that a fairly large bulk portfolio of mortgage servicing rights might be hitting the auction block soon...

GSE buyback activity has trended lower over the past two years…

Lobbyists and others tracking the effort told this newsletter that those who’ve been shown the legislative language have taken a non-disclosure vow…

Nine senators said they would work to invalidate any new rules issued by the CFPB if Leandra English prevails in her attempts to unseat and replace the bureau’s acting director, Mick Mulvaney...

Ocwen Asset Servicing Income Series 2014-1 was secured by MSR related to $11.80 billion of mortgages serviced for Freddie Mac.

A tiny portion of loans sold into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities trigger a buyback demand from either of the GSEs, and in most cases lenders are able to avoid an actual repurchase or indemnification. Lenders repurchased or provided other indemnification for $260.12 million of home loans during the third quarter of 2017, a 6.4 percent increase from the prior period, according to an Inside The GSEs analysis of quarterly disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the same period, Fannie and Freddie issued $223.6 billion of new single-family MBS. The third-quarter spike in buyback activity came all on the Freddie side of the market.