The NAR is hoping that a cut in g-fees (and LLPAs) ultimately will be passed down to consumers – who buy homes from NAR’s members.

Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is thinking about ending public disclosure of the agency’s controversial consumer-complaint database. The idea is consistent with his goal of limiting the bureau to activities that are specifically required by law.

Investors Unite: "We’re in trouble if the secret plan for GSE reform rests on axing the only public official who is actually tuned into reality…”

Freddie CEO Donald Layton told Inside MBS & ABS that implementation of the FHFA directive “has largely been complete.”

CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney: “I don’t know why we call it the CFPB; that is not the name of the organization..."

There’s been speculation that when the Trump administration picks Watt’s successor, one of the first things that person might do is impose a loan-size purchase limit on the two government-sponsored enterprises.

Total gripes filed during 1Q18 were down 36.3 percent from a year ago…

CMLA favors a recapitalization and reform plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, one where they are transformed into “utilities.”

Rep. Waters wants CFPB acting director Mulvaney to turn over documents regarding meetings he's had with the industry...

Democrats are howling after Mick Mulvaney’s blatant “pay to play” comments at a banking industry event last week, calling for him to step down as acting director of the CFPB. Mulvaney said in a speech to the American Bankers Association that he only met with lobbyists who gave him financial donations when he served on Capitol Hill. “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” said Mulvaney, former member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina. “If you’re a lobbyist who never ...