Non-agency MBS execution is competitive with agency MBS execution for purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios below 70 percent and credit scores above 740.

Citigroup will pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac damages for the faulty MBS it sold to them but no one knows the cost of the settlement.

Not only is HUD looking into PHH's underwriting practices, but the government has questions about the lender's foreclosure expenses.

The auction market for nonperforming mortgages is beginning to generate heat with prices rising nicely from last year.

Come next year, Freddie Mac will assess lenders a fee of $7,500 if they fail to deliver mortgage loans with an aggregate principal balance of more than $5 million.

Bank investment in residential MBS fell 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013 to $1.562 trillion.

New bulk MSR packages continue to hit the market. Many of the new deals have low coupons and hardly any delinquencies.

A new bill to replace Fannie and Freddie with a single government guarantor is already being dismissed.

The Senate Banking Committee has yet to schedule a confirmation hearing for Mel Watt to head FHFA. Does this lack of action mean anything?

When was the last time a financial institution operating under a government conservatorship started a new company, one that potentially stands to make a bunch of money, given the rapidly improving mortgage market? Answer: Never. This and other questions are being asked by mortgage executives who are trying to track the progress of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s common securitization platform, a joint venture between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. FHFA officials...