Fannie Mae recently completed its first single-family rental securitization deal with a large institutional investor and the Urban Institute said demand for SFR financing is likely to grow. The $1 billion deal with Invitation Homes was announced in January as a pilot program. The Dallas-based company is the largest single-family rental operator in the U.S. and has a portfolio of about 50,000 homes that it acquires from foreclosures. As investors increasingly rely on leverage to earn an acceptable rate of return, these kinds of transactions are expected...

In April, Wells Fargo was the top seller of mortgages to Fannie and Freddie with $9.02 billion, followed by Quicken Loans and JPMorgan Chase…

Servicing advisors Steve Harris and Mark Garland view the MSR market as improving…

MBA's Stevens once again slams those in favor of a GSE “recap and release” plan, saying this group consists “primarily [of] stock speculators who are most concerned about personal profits” rather than the future of the U.S. housing system.”

In the new Trump budget, the White House takes an ax to the USDA’s rural single-family housing direct loan program.

Meanwhile, although GSE risk sharing seems popular in some circles, FHFA itself admitted recently that some of this coverage has come at premium cost to Fannie and Freddie.

California accounts for the largest chunk of receivables at 34.9 percent.

A new research note from Wedbush Securities calls PHH an “outperform,” but also reduces the target price on the company’s stock...

In a number of cases, GSE seller-servicers cleaned up pipelines of pending or disputed buyback demands.

The low trading volume is an indication that liquidity is drying up, but it also reflects a decline in new agency MBS being created.