The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week stopped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from financing corporate landlords that buy single-family rental properties – sometimes in bulk – declaring that SFR operators do not need the “liquidity provided by the enterprises.”

The latest non-agency mortgage-backed security from JPMorgan Chase will include a higher share of conforming mortgages than the previous issuance from the firm. Chase is preparing to issue a $999.0 million MBS, according to presale reports from DBRS, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service. Mortgages eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises account for 65.1 percent of the collateral, amounting to $650.3 million. GSE-eligible mortgages ...

Freddie Mac Tuesday afternoon announced an approximate $1.45 billion Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction of a pool of seasoned reperforming loans, the largest SLST deal of this year...

Cenlar and Dovenmuehle, which rank first and second, respectively, experienced slow growth during the period…

Fannie Mae came under heavy criticism from certain elected officials and affordable housing advocates for extending $1 billion in financing to Invitation Home Loans, an SFR operator that’s publicly traded.

Grimes, in her complaint, is asking for a permanent injunction enjoining the FHFA from “paying female employees lower compensation than their male” counterparts for performing equal work…

Overall, California has 99,781 licensed and registered mortgage LOs, far more than any other state…

In Washington mortgage servicers must now maintain recorded telephone conversations with consumers for three years after the date of the call…

Certain SFR operators have been criticized for gobbling up thousands of properties for corporate ownership, thus removing these units from the inventory of homes available for sale.

When bonuses and benefits are factored in, Grimes says the pay disparity totals $100,000 per year...