Certain potential changes could materially affect origination volume and determine the government-sponsored enterprises’ direction going forward, according to analysts. One of those changes could have a significant impact on the FHA market. Wells Fargo Securities analysts recently looked at three potential developments in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac sphere and evaluated their effects on the broader mortgage market. Two of those potential changes – loan limits and guarantee fees – are controlled directly by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, while the third relates to the temporary GSE qualified-mortgage exemption, or “QM patch,” which could affect the FHA market. All three factors loom over the mortgage landscape as the FHFA expects a new director in January 2019, who is likely to be more right leaning and could shift the focus back to shrinking the ...

The deal is backed by jumbo reverse loans with a total unpaid principal balance of $571.8 million…

Clayton Services has been hired to conduct due diligence reviews every 90 days on 100 randomly selected loans.

Fannie Mae receivables dominate the package at $70.9 million...

Fix-and-flip loans generally have terms that range from a few months to three years…

On Wednesday, Freddie Mac will release third-quarter results...

But putting the negativity aside for a minute, there are a couple of bright spots in the industry: Servicing valuations and non-QM lending...

The New York-based real estate investment trust has been on an MSR acquisition tear the past three years...

During the financial crisis, average interest rates on conforming mortgages were much lower than rates on jumbos…

Fannie Mae continues to mine for non-existent companies that might show up on the consumer loan applications submitted to its seller-servicers...