The special servicing rate for loans backing commercial MBS declined for the seventh consecutive month in April, with the hard-hit lodging sector showing the most improvement.

Nonagency veteran Dan Perl is back in the hunt after a brief flirtation with retirement. He’s working on a nonprime conduit and a whole lot more.

Michael DeVito comes out of retirement to take the helm at Freddie Mac next month.

Demand has been booming for single-family rental properties over the past year. Amherst Residential saw an 85% year-over-year increase in applications for rental homes.

As the FHFA cracks down on investor-loan volume, opportunities are being created anew. Also, FHFA, apparently, is losing sleep over GSE CMBS. (That’s correct.)

As much as $20 billion of GSE-eligible mortgages could go into non-agency MBS annually due to new restrictions on GSE acquisitions of mortgages for investment properties and second homes.

Since 2013, CRT has cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a combined $15 billion, but provided just $50 million in benefits, according to a new FHFA report.

MBS trading is drifting lower in a rising rate environment, but the outlook remains cloudy as mortgage bankers wonder how many more months they have left before refis drain for good. Or will they?

Analysts argue that resolutions plans for the GSEs are purely theoretical devices because the government will never let them fail.

Loans backed by hotel and retail properties, which have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic, will be difficult to refinance, the rating service said.