The former Fannie Mae economist suggested the Fed should decide to have a measured reduction in its MBS holdings…

Fannie and Freddie are being urged to bring liquidity to the “chattel” loan market…

For GSE-eligible mortgages, 12.9 percent of the banks surveyed loosened their underwriting standards compared to the previous quarter…

The FHFA wants the GSEs to provide liquidity to the trailer home market but there are risks...

According to an Inside MBS & ABS analysis, the average credit score for GSE business in the first quarter was 745.1…

The company that owns the portfolio was described in the offering circular only as an “experienced seller.”

Industry observers like Tim Howard, a former Fannie CFO, said that while reducing the corporate tax rate would lower the taxes the GSEs pay in the long run, it would drain the value of their DTAs in the short term.

Some in the industry believe the GSE common shares are essentially worthless with the junior preferred falling into the category of being a speculative bet.

Much of the talk has centered on the GSEs aiding liquidity in the manufactured housing market...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported strong first quarter combined earnings this week of $5.0 billion, but that was down by almost half from the 9.9 billion they earned in the previous quarter. The GSEs attributed the quarterly decline to smaller interest rate increases in the first three months of the year and less income from refinancing. While Fannie earned $2.77 billion in the first quarter, a 44.9 percent sequential decline from the fourth quarter of 2016, Freddie earned $2.21 billion, which represented a 54.4 percent decline. “This is down from the fourth quarter of 2016, but up from a year ago. I know that this number has definite market sensitivity to it just beyond...