Three House Democrats plan to introduce a new housing-finance reform bill that would leverage the Ginnie Mae mortgage-securitization infrastructure and private mortgage insurers. The reform proposal by Reps. John Delaney (MD), John Carney (AL) and Jim Himes (CT) would establish a system of government reinsurance for eligible mortgage-backed securities. The idea is to leverage the government’s capacity and market’s ability to price risk, they said. Their plan calls...

Comments made Wednesday by the Treasury Department’s point man on GSE reform, Michael Stegman, did not go unnoticed by employees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Hoping to jump start the non-agency MBS market, the Structured Finance Industry Group plans to establish a limited number of options on various rep and warrant issues.

Industry advisors expect Wells Fargo to sell additional packages of mortgage servicing rights in the months ahead.

The lender also recently formed a real estate investment trust, Parkside Mortgage Trust. Matt Ostrander, Parkside’s CEO, said the REIT plans to issue a non-agency MBS later this year or in 2015.

One servicing advisor told IMFnews that the regulator “now has the last word on all MSR transfer approvals. It began in December and has slowed the process a bit.”

The hunger for GSE speculation is also causing some investors to buy Fannie/Freddie common which has been rising of late, but not by much. However, one GSE watcher believes that buying the common, "is a fool’s game."

In other words, the White House still wants to dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and doesn't seem to care about all the money the two are returning to the government.

It's no secret that banks like to hold jumbo mortgages in portfolio, but depositories are also major contributors to non-agency securities.

The HUD pools had an estimated unpaid principal balance of $10.7 billion and a broker price opinion of $8.2 billion.