As the calendar winds down on 2017, staffers for Sens. Robert Corker, R-TN, and Mark Warner, D-VA, are busy working on housing-finance reform legislation, showing their progress, thus far, to a small group of industry insiders, Inside Mortgage Finance has learned.

Some $25.94 billion of the industry-wide increase was booked by the three largest bank MBS investors…

Come Jan. 1, rates may spike thanks to zero GSE capital...

In high-cost areas, the GSE loan limit will increase to $679,650...

As press time, details were sketchy, but lobbyists who claim to have knowledge of the draft caution there are several “different pieces” to the measure...

The Fannie/Freddie receivables would come primarily from California, Florida and Texas.

This most-risky bucket accounted for just 2.6 percent of refi business in the third quarter...

Celini also worked for Sun National and Ally Bank, formerly known as GMAC Bank…

Franklin Codel's LinkedIn profile had been wiped clean...

After being absent for about 10 years, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will re-enter the low-income housing tax credit market to support affordable rental housing, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced late this week. But the GSEs’ market share will be capped so they’re not in direct competition with the private market, and their investments must meet certain requirements. Fannie and Freddie will have an annual investment limit of $500 million, which translates to less than a 5 percent market share for each, according to the FHFA. Moreover, any investments more than $300 million during any year must be in areas that have been identified by the FHFA as markets that have difficulty attracting investors.