According to Fairholme’s math, the GSEs earn over $15 billion a year, and taxpayers own 80 percent of the companies (via the senior preferred). Berkowitz values the senior stock at $100 billion…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquired $57.17 billion of single-family loans with private MI coverage during the second quarter…

The top three Ginnie Mae issuers in 2Q17 were PennyMac, Wells Fargo and Freedom Mortgage…

The $5.5 billion (to be) paid by RBS should boost GSE earnings big time...

Some critics say the underserved markets proposals put forth by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t focus enough on increasing loan purchases. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in May issued draft proposals for boosting financing for certain underserved markets under the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s duty-to-serve requirements. The rule focuses on three specific markets: manufactured housing, rural housing and preserving affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. The National Low Income Housing Coalition said...

RBS will pay approximately $4.53 billion to Freddie and approximately $975 million to Fannie.

Some 15.2 percent of the mortgages in Chase’s second-quarter MBS were eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises.

The big question: Will the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee support an explicit government guarantee on conventional MBS?

FHFA’s status as an independent agency headed by a single director makes it different from almost every other independent agency…

“Rated nonprime non-qualified-mortgage transactions should broaden the investor base,” Deutsche Bank said.