Brian Montgomery’s proposed Office of National Housing Policy would be headed by a “housing policy czar…”

In 2016, Fannie and Freddie guaranteed $973.72 billion of single-family loans, an 18.1 percent improvement from the year prior.

As delinquencies and foreclosures decline, specialists that deal with problem loans should see a drop in business...

Deephaven's CEO, Matt Nichols, is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs where he worked for 12 years.

One loan officer said FHA should consider building a "true jumbo program that is exclusive of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…”

Santander Consumer USA was the most active issuer of vehicle ABS…

One issue is the tax treatment of compensation that MBS investors receive for converting legacy Freddie participation certificates…

The average daily trading volume in agency MBS fell to $192.1 billion in December, the lowest reading of the year, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. For the full year, however, average daily trading volume in agency product came to $206.6 billion, compared to $193.0 billion in 2015 and $178.0 billion in 2014. The last time trading volume was higher than in 2016 came three years earlier when $222.8 billion in agency product was traded on a daily basis. What the numbers actually mean is...

Black Knight studied loan-level data on outstanding mortgages to derive at its conclusion…

Credit quality for the loans backing unique warehouse-funding securitizations from Jefferies Funding remains strong, according to Moody’s Investors Service. One of the risks was that weaker collateral could be included in the transactions as time passed. The $225.0 million Station Place Securitization Trust 2016-1 received Aaa ratings from Moody’s last February and a $210.0 million 2016-3 transaction issued in May garnered an with Aaa rating. The rating service evaluated the deals recently as the 2016-1 securitization is set to pay down next month. “To date, there has been...