Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to whittle away at their retained mortgage portfolios during the first quarter, though the pair still had $469.3 billion of MBS and whole loans on their books at the end of March. [Includes one data chart.]

It’s not clear if the REIT sector will amp up its participation in credit-risk transfer deals offered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

Starwood Property Trust, a REIT largely focused on commercial mortgages, has been stockpiling non-QMs…

A former Fannie executive (pre-federal takeover) said that when he worked at the GSE, “We looked at doing this, but were told it wasn’t in the charter and so we didn’t proceed.”

Angel Oak's small-balance commercial unit employs 19 full-timers and hopes to add an additional 30...

MBS from Angel Oak Companies had the highest share of broker originations…

It was a nice pay check last year for LendingTree founder and CEO Douglas Lebda...

Redwood is set to issue its largest expanded-credit MBS ever: A $520.48 million security backed by…

The MI executive said there are a number of misconceptions about the program…

One former Fannie Mae executive was critical of the effort, calling it “mission and charter creep.”