Meanwhile, the leaders of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee have introduced S. 1751, a six-year extension bill with relatively minor reforms, as far as the Realtors are concerned.

The Trump administration has yet to announce a nominee for the top job at Ginnie Mae...

The proposed $4.3 billion merger of single-family rental operators Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint Homes will create a corporate landlord with 82,000 homes – and a behemoth of a potential client for Fannie Mae and possibly Freddie Mac. Earlier this year, Fannie agreed to provide Invitation Homes with $1 billion in financing. The deal broke new ground for the government-sponsored enterprise, but it also raised questions about whether a government-owned entity that received billions in taxpayer assistance should be lending money to a company (Invitation Homes) grubstaked by Wall Street. Since the Invitation-Fannie arrangement was unveiled, no other significant SFR financing vehicles involving a GSE has...

The average loan balance on the $779 million MSR package is $241,000…

According to our calculation, Fannie common now trades at $2.80, a 20.17 percent improvement since the close of 2Q17, while Freddie’s value rose 21.08 percent to $2.70.

Roughly 71.0 percent of second-quarter primary-market originations of first-lien mortgages were purchase loans, the highest reading in years…

The clock is ticking on Richard Cordray’s political ambitions in Ohio…

In its new bank-statement program, Citadel will make mortgages of up to $3 million…

Walter has a market capitalization (stock price multiplied by number of shares) of just $11.8 million…

The FHFA estimates that roughly 143,000 GSE borrowers are still eligible to use the HARP program.