Resolving the long-running conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is drawing a lot of attention, but policymakers and industry groups don’t seem any closer to a consensus. For the most part, the executive branch and many groups representing large financial institutions want Congress to tackle the problem through legislation. Investors and some groups representing smaller lenders say the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Treasury could do more to pave the way. Motivating the debate is...

Keep in mind that Mel Watt’s term as Federal Housing Finance Agency director expires in January 2019...

Subservicers handle 19.0 percent of all homes mortgages in the U.S., Inside Mortgage Finance found…

Freddie Mac: “We are also specifying that an unlicensed or trainee (or similar classification) appraiser may perform a completion report…”

So far, speculation regarding a change in the GSE dividend payment has been dead wrong, but there’s still time...

Residential loan sales by banks totaled $151.79 billion in the second quarter, down 7.3 percent from the previous period.

MUFG Union Bank was the top wholesale lender in the jumbo market by a wide margin.

FHFA Director Mel Watt is concerned about zero capital, but has not yet given any public indication he will do something about it...

All of the uptick in seller buybacks came from Fannie, where repurchases surged 21.5 percent from the first to the second quarter.

Angel Oak expects that production by its wholesale arm will grow by 62.8 percent this year.