Industry stakeholders are increasingly dour on the prospect of Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt acting to rectify the government-sponsored enterprises’ capital buffer issue before yearend, but there’s growing hope that bipartisan reform legislation might be enacted next year.

MBS-investing REITs boosted their holdings by 10.1 percent on a sequential basis…

Republicans are reportedly on board with the federal MBS guarantee but reluctant to backstop future guarantor entities…

Correspondent programs are most dominant in the FHA market, perhaps reflecting a preference among large producers to have recourse…

Some $28.61 billion of non-government-insured higher-priced mortgages were originated in 2016, up 28.9 percent from the previous year…

However, a source familiar with the matter stressed that the GSE is merely considering a construction-to-perm product and nothing more.

KBW estimates that if the corporate tax rate falls, Fannie and Freddie, combined, would have to fork over to Treasury an estimated $13 billion to $19 billion…

You might say that Wilbur Ross got out of Ocwen while the getting was good...

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie continued to dominate multifamily activity…

“A significant reduction in the corporate tax rate would result in a significant net loss, and that could result in a loss for the year,” said Fannie CEO Timothy Mayopoulos…