According to Urban Institute, mortgage insurance payouts mean GSE losses on loans with LTVs over 80% are comparable to those on loans with LTVs below 80%.

Key flubs by defense witnesses may have convinced the jury that the Treasury Department and FHFA had ulterior motives when they agreed to the net worth sweep.

While many mortgage industry stakeholders want the GSEs’ current capital rule to be changed, others believe it’s a good compromise.

Congress and the mortgage industry seem on opposite sides when it comes to the timetable for credit score reform. That leaves FHFA in the middle.

A new advisory bulletin provides the answers to a series of abstruse accounting questions as a way of clarifying an earlier bulletin.

FHFA’s RFI on tenant protections attracted 3,522 comments, the vast majority from tenants voicing support. Industry groups argued that the economics of rent control just don’t work.

With a nonperforming loan sale, a reperforming loan sale and a social bond transaction, Fannie livened up an otherwise slow year.

According to their 2023 Dodd-Frank stress tests, Fannie and Freddie would remain profitable even in the worst financial depression of the modern era.

Steve Pawlowski, a key player in Fannie Mae’s technology development, has moved to Mortgage Capital Trading.

Rising home prices allowed Fannie and Freddie to drive up second-quarter profits by reducing their loan loss allowances. (Includes data chart.)