A number of real estate investment trusts are increasing their presence in the jumbo mortgage-backed security market with conduit programs as well as purchases of subordinate tranches from new MBS. Two Harbors Investment said its jumbo conduit had a pipeline with an unpaid principal balance of $650 million at the end of the second quarter of 2014, more than four times the REIT’s pipeline at March 31. Two Harbors recently issued a $267.67 million jumbo MBS, the first from the REIT this year ...

In 2013, Freddie Mac reimbursed its servicers $1.4 billion but identified and denied $126 million in what the IG calls “erroneous” claims.

The American Bankers Association believes GSE loan limits in much of the nation could be reduced.

But if Fannie and Freddie sell their headquarter properties, shouldn’t they move to a low cost state like Wyoming or Montana? I

Back in the 1980s, when Fannie Mae was losing $1 million a day, it contemplated selling the property and came up with a value of $10 million to $15 million. Today, it's worth much more than that.

Since the collapse of the non-agency market back in 2008, Fannie and Freddie have generally accounted for over 70 percent of new MBS production.

Due diligence providers that work on MBS and ABS also will have to provide certifications to the rating services which will be disclosed on each rating issued.

However, non-agency MBS issuers won a slight concession on the matter: the SEC had initially proposed a five-day waiting period.

Indirectly, Bill Erbey controls about 5.9 million shares of Altisource through a limited liability company called Salt Pond Holdings.

The FHFA IG claims a Fannie Mae executive back in 2000 discovered that TBW had pledged the same collateral – mortgages – to both Fannie and another company. But then Fannie took no action until two years later.