As usual, the Federal Housing Finance Agency provided as little detail as possible in its new disclosures on the common securitization platform.

The Supreme Court's decision sends the defendant banks back to federal district court where they will be able to appeal at a later date should an adverse ruling directly affect them.

Laurel Davis, a vice president at Fannie Mae, said the GSE learned from Freddie’s transaction and the pending risk-sharing deal from Fannie is set to receive an investment grade rating from Fitch Ratings.

Industry advisors and lobbyists hope they can move the implementation date for lower GSE loan limits deep into the second quarter, but they also realize they cannot forestall it completely.

An assistant at CashCall tries to clear the air on the lender's sale. Meanwhile, the USDA mortgage program is dead, for now.

Every component in the residential MBS market was down from the second quarter, and trending lower on a monthly basis, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

Starting in 2014, the FHLB will purchase conventional, conforming fixed-rate mortgages and FHA/VA products from its members, but some of the product will be funneled to Fannie Mae via the MPF Xtra program.

Certain members of the U.S. Senate want to see some type of analysis from FHFA on what impact lower loan limits will have on the housing and mortgage markets.

A steady decline in single-family agency MBS issuance led to a 13.8 percent decline in MBS and ABS production during the third quarter of 2013, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. A total of $388.53 billion of single-family MBS were issued during the third quarter, a 15.7 percent drop from the previous three-month period. It marked the lowest quarterly output for single-family MBS since the second quarter of last year, although year-to-date production was still up 9.0 percent from the first nine months of 2012. Every component in the residential MBS market was...[Includes three data pages]

The secondary market for residential servicing rights returned to health this year, spurring new hopes that it could lead to securitizations of “excess” MSRs. But getting there could prove difficult. Mark Garland, president of MountainView Servicing Group, said mortgage firms that have amassed large holdings of MSRs would like to unlock the value imbedded in this esoteric asset. One way to do that is through securitization transactions. According to Garland, large banks – including Wells Fargo – have been quietly selling...