As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders inch closer to having hundreds of government documents released in pending shareholder lawsuits surrounding the conservatorship and preferred stock purchase agreement, they are more confident the court will rule in their favor. In the latest development in Fairholme Funds v. the United States, Federal Claims Court Judge Margaret Sweeney last week granted a motion to compel the disclosure of documents filed over the summer by ...

A previously announced legal settlement with Royal Bank of Scotland will soon hit the books...

While the pilot is limited to New Hampshire home buyers, Fannie thinks the pilot could open the door to other states doing something similar…

There’s still no word from the White House on when it will nominate industry executive David Kittle to be the next president of Ginnie Mae...

The first offering is for $524 million and comes from an independent mortgage banking firm…

The flow of home loans for first-time buyers was up a robust 24.7 percent on a sequential basis…

The plaintiffs have long argued that the government is trying to keep roughly 1,500 documents hidden under the deliberative process and bank examination privileges.

“Only two single-borrower, single-family rental securitizations posted a retention rate below 70.0 percent,” Morningstar said…

With Trump being a real estate developer – though that part of his career is on hold right now – it will be interesting to see if he takes a hands-on approach to reforming the GSEs...

The agency single-family MBS market continued cranking along during the third quarter of 2017, but other sectors in structured finance saw weakening issuance, according to an exclusive new analysis and ranking by Inside MBS & ABS. Some $407.55 billion of MBS and ABS – excluding collateralized debt obligations and agency credit-risk transfer deals – were issued during the third quarter. That was off 4.9 percent from the previous three-month period and it ... [Includes three data charts]