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.”

Also, there’s a growing fear that in the absence of Congressional action, a free-market leaning Treasury Department, in tandem with a Trump-appointed FHFA director, might alter the way GSEs operate...

The agency single-family MBS market stepped into the spring homebuying season with a solid increase in production, though still coming up slightly short of last year’s activity. [Includes two data charts.]

Competition between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on MBS guarantee fees appeared to play a role in Freddie’s surge in market share during the fourth quarter, but the price war seemed to ease up in 2018.