Last summer, Chase started offering jumbos with credit scores as low as 680 and downpayments as small as 15 percent. Previously, the bank required credit scores of at least 720 and 20 percent down…

Although the CSS joint venture has a projected budget and multi-year budget plan, it is working with FHFA about when to release that information…

At $1.661 trillion, it’s a new record in terms of banks and MBS holdings…

The groups stress that the conservatorships were intended to be a short-term measure to keep the GSEs solvent…

The OIG’s investigations also include matters tied to loan origination and short sale fraud and even REO…

Freddie Mac and Common Securitization Solutions remain on track for the first stage of the ambitious Single Security to be implemented next year, according to officials speaking at this week’s secondary market conference sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association. David Applegate, CEO of CSS – the joint venture owned by the two government-sponsored enterprises that is building the common securitization platform – also said the project is on target to reach the second stage sometime in 2018. That’s when Fannie Mae will switch its to-be-announced business to the CSP and begin issuing Single Securities that will be fully interchangeable with Freddie Single Securities. Renee Schultz, senior vice president of capital markets at Fannie, said...

First-time buyers tend to target homes with lower prices, which have been in particularly short supply recently.

Activity in the Home Affordable Refinance Program continued to dwindle in the first quarter of 2016 as the post-housing crisis initiative winds down before expiring at the end of the year. HARP refinances fell to just 19,989 in the first quarter, down 5.2 percent from the previous period and off 36.8 percent from a year ago, according to a new Federal Housing Finance Agency report. While both government-sponsored enterprises saw a decline in volume, Freddie Mac volume was...[Includes one data table]

Helpful CFPB mortgage audit tip: Set aside a parking space for the visiting CFPB examiner(s) that says, “Welcome, CFPB…”

A group of investors pushed back against suggestions that so-called private capital won’t return to the market for new non-agency mortgage-backed securities. The Association of Mortgage Investors took exception to recent comments by Timothy Mayopoulos, president and CEO of Fannie Mae. He predicted that the non-agency MBS market won’t come back due to significant losses suffered during the financial crisis. However, the AMI said the government-sponsored enterprises are ...