Redwood Trust is about to have company from other real estate investment trusts looking to issue non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities. Two Harbors Investment will issue its first jumbo MBS later this month, and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust plans to issue a security by the end of September. Redwood helped revive non-agency jumbo MBS issuance beginning in 2010 and has been active in the sector ever since. Following the financial crisis, no other REITs joined Redwood even though ...

If you're looking for a g-fee bargain, Freddie Mac is offering deals. Well, sort of.

FBR notes that a key provision in the draft QRM rule is that any mortgage securitized by Fannie or Freddie is automatically a QRM.

The publicly traded REIT is jumping into the jumbo MBS market with its first deal. Many of the loans come from nonbanks.

Any private label mortgage seized through the use of eminent domain will not be eligible for FHA coverage, HUD hints in a new letter.

The IG's evaluation survey found that the total cumulative voluntary attrition rate at Fannie’s capital markets group “increased somewhat” from January 2010 through 2012.

The market did not react kindly to PennyMac's announcement about selling more shares of common stock.

If you thought that Bank of America was done selling mortgage servicing rights, think again.

It would appear that the GSE buyback scourge may be winding down. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae has egg on its face over someone it hired.

Fannie sold $2.2 billion of non-agency assets in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, Freddie sold at least $1 billion of non-prime MBS in May.