Testifying before a Senate panel earlier this year, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan warned that sequestration would limit the FHA’s ability to provide information and services in a wide range of areas.

Freddie Mac's low activity fee could add more than $2 million to its bottom line.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued two new compliance guides but is warning that they are not substitutes for the underlying rules.

Community banks are getting slapped with a "low activity" fee from Freddie Mac and the ICBA is not happy.

In a new filing with the SEC, Walter Investment said it discovered that its new reverse subsidiary had failed to record certain servicing errors.

Will cash-out refinancings ever return? Meanwhile, a new petition posted on the White House website that might helps GSE shareholders is taking off.

The bipartisan legislation to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that’s taking shape in the Senate would leverage key reform projects already underway at the government-sponsored enterprises, but it doesn’t tackle some of the key transition issues the market would face by putting the GSEs out of business. The reform plan being put together by Sens. Bob Corker, R-TN, and Mark Warner, D-VA, has at its core the risk-sharing projects currently being designed by the GSEs, according to a copy of the draft legislation provided to Inside MBS & ABS. The Secondary Mortgage Market Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2013 would also implement the common securitization platform that Fannie and Freddie are building under the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The legislation would put...

U.S Bank may proceed on a limited basis in its legal claim against Bank of America and Countrywide Financial in connection with a soured $1.75 billion MBS deal after a New York state judge ruled last week to narrow the case to just a fraction of the loans in dispute. Judge Eileen Bransten dismissed a breach of contract claim against BofA that sought to force the bank to repurchase some 4,400 loans in the pool due to “pervasive breaches” in the representations and warranties of the securities. U.S. Bank, in its capacity as trustee for HarborView Mortgage Loan Trust, sued BofA and Countrywide in August 2011 seeking repurchase of non-performing loans from the underlying residential MBS. The judge said...

By excluding from the points and fees calculation compensation paid by creditors and mortgage brokers to their employees, the bureau prevents some double counting.

The Obama administration has mounted a public relations push, including a recent White House social media buzz, pushing for the HARP 3.0 program.