The FHFA has the authority to require the GSEs to buy chattel loans for manufactured housing, but it decided not to exercise this option...

What do nonbanks think about depositories avoiding the wholesale/broker sector? They love it.

“The most common example is a loan program for self-employed borrowers that relies on bank statements, rather than tax returns, to determine income,” Fitch said.

Quicken Loans is contributing 17.1 percent of the mortgages to the new jumbo MBS from Credit Suisse.

If Fannie Mae's origination forecast comes true, just $615 billion in loans will be written from July 1 to Dec. 31, an ugly outlook indeed…

The results are based on 354 lenders that submitted production data to the trade group.

Remember the nonprime MBS deal that Angel Oak was working on with Nomura? The transaction may be on again...

HomeReady will become part of DU later this year and replaces the MyCommunityMortgage product, which in some circles was known as Fannie’s “subprime” option.

A former FHA commissioner, Stevens said GSE reform should include a new charter for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Freddie’s multifamily business grew so much that some industry observers worried that the GSE could reach the $30 billion annual multifamily business cap set by the FHFA.