Though the end of July, Freddie has issued roughly $302 billion of single-family MBS compared to $500 billion for Fannie.

Is refi specialist CashCall still on the auction block?

The White House believes that the current housing finance system, where the government guarantees more than 80 percent of all mortgages through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA, is unsustainable.

Between 2008 and early 2011, unsecured credit extensions by FHLBs to European institutions swelled from $66 billion to $123 billion.

The market for residential servicing rights continues to gain momentum with two new offerings from The Prestwick Mortgage Group.

Ocwen is looking at $400 billion of MSR deals, at least. Meanwhile, a lager wholesale may exit, and no, it's not EverBank.

Most of the apartment loans being securitized go through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

According to an IRS private-letter ruling, certain excess servicing rights would constitute a real-estate asset, and income from the spread would be treated as interest on obligations secured by mortgages on real property.

The Securities and Exchange Commission prevailed Thursday in its case against Fabrice Tourre, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs. The regulator also plans to increase enforcement against Wall Street...

Securitization of income-property mortgages declined by 7.9 percent during the second quarter of 2013, with the biggest drop coming in non-agency commercial MBS issuance, according to a new market analysis by Inside MBS & ABS. A total of $43.92 billion of commercial mortgage securities were issued during the second quarter, which still ranked as the second strongest quarter since the third quarter of 2007. For the first six months of 2013, total commercial mortgage securitization was up 78.5 percent from the same period, and the market appears likely to set another post-crash record by the time the year is over. The non-agency CMBS market has seen...[Includes one data chart]