One slide in the GSE presentation is entitled, “The Blob and the Return of the Blob,” a reference to the horror movie classics of the late 1950s…

The Federal Housing Finance Agency and mortgage lender groups are raising concerns about the new California data privacy law set to take effect in 2020, saying it doesn’t take into account the impact on mortgage lending.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that will determine whether non-judicial foreclosures are subject to protections provided by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Lower courts have split on the issue, causing problems for servicers and borrowers.

But there’s a catch for lenders: Originators will have to pay an additional loan-level price adjustment…

In the first quarter of 2018, Flagstar funded $7.88 billion of home mortgages, just $960 million of which came through the retail channel...

The share of high-DTI loans has continued to go up this year…

Pershing Square bought its stake in the GSEs earlier in the decade at prices north of $2.00 a share…

Gripes against Experian came in at 14,914 over the six-month period…

The net result was a strong gain in Freddie’s share of the GSE market…

Freddie Mac saw a strong rebound in its single-family business during the second quarter following a sluggish start to the year. Freddie guaranteed $82.23 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities during the second quarter, a romping 28.6 percent increase from the first three months of the year. The GSE produced just $63.93 billion of MBS in the first three months of 2018, its slackest quarter in almost four years. Fannie’s single-family business was off slightly in the second quarter as MBS issuance declined to $111.36 billion – its weakest output since the first three months of 2016. [Includes two data charts.]