Pretium won pools one and two, which have a combined loan balance of $238.6 million.

Meanwhile, Ocwen watchers are scratching their heads over a fourth quarter goodwill charge that eventually could reach $420 million...

A spokesman for Ocwen declined to comment on the “controlled liquidation” characterization and could offer no time table on when the lender/servicer might release its fourth quarter results.

Eventually, the seller may offer $500 million per month in GSE product or $6 billion per year.

On Monday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency published new guidelines to govern nonperforming loan sales by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Coupled with a recently announced Freddie Mac MSR sale to Nationstar ($9.8 billion), Ocwen estimated the sale of GSE receivables will generate $550 million in gross proceeds.

At Dec. 31, depositories held $964.2 billion of pass-through securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, a gain of 1.3 percent from the third quarter.

Commercial banks and thrifts added $12.2 billion of agency single-family MBS to their investment portfolios during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis of call-report data. Banks and thrifts held $1.539 trillion of MBS on their books at the end of last year, a slight 0.3 percent increase from the third quarter. Bank/thrift holdings were up 2.2 percent from the end of 2013. Growth in agency mortgage securities was...[Includes two data charts]

Although the Federal Housing Finance Agency has yet to tip its hand on where it might be headed regarding guaranty fees, most of the industry is betting on no change at all – or possibly a slight reduction, according to interviews conducted by Inside MBS & ABS over the past two weeks. Moreover, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac themselves are playing a key role in the decision-making process, at least that’s what Freddie CEO Donald Layton said recently. “Guaranty fees are...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reduced their combined mortgage investment portfolio by 13.7 percent last year by focusing on less-liquid assets. The two government-sponsored enterprises still had $821.7 billion of mortgages and MBS on their books at the end of the year. Freddie reported that it sold $16.5 billion of less-liquid assets such as unsecuritized mortgages, multifamily assets and non-agency MBS. At the end of the year, some 59 percent of its portfolio was designated as less liquid, down from 62 percent at the end of 2013. The Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2013 directed...[Includes one data chart]