The Federal Housing Finance Agency determined that for 2015 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not meet all of their low-income and very low-income home-purchase goals, according to the FHFA’s preliminary annual housing report released in late October. Fannie met all of its goals in 2014 but this is the second year that Freddie fell short of meeting the same goals. Under the GSEs’ affordable housing goals, low-income is for home-purchase mortgages to families with incomes no greater than 80 percent of the area median income, and the very low-income home- purchase goal is for families with incomes no greater than 50 percent of AMI. The low-income home-purchase goal was 24 percent and Freddie ended 2015 at 22.3 percent.

Second-ranked AGNC Investment Corp. – formerly American Capital Agency Corp. – reported a 2.2 percent increase in its MBS holdings under a new management structure…

RE/MAX promises that its new loan brokerage franchise concept is RESPA compliant...

An executive at Angel Oak Capital, Atlanta, parent of Angel Oak Home Loans, confirmed that his firm is seeking a rating and would like to issue a rated non-QM MBS someday…

The serious delinquency rate on Fannie’s purchased/guaranteed Alt A mortgages was 5.27 percent at Sept. 30, down from 6.75 percent the year before.

Credit Suisse issued two more series of notes this week on its mortgage-lending warehouse securitization offering, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The $1.20 billion in total new issuance from the Wall Street firm followed two notes it issued in August totaling $800 million. As with the August issuance, the new Mortgage Repurchase Agreement Financing Trust, Series 2016-3 and Series 2016-4, received A2 ratings from Moody’s. All of the deals were underwritten by Credit Suisse and HSBC Securities. The transactions are backed...

In case you didn’t know it, the Irvine, CA-based Citadel now services roughly $650 million in nonprime loans. Angel Oak and Deephaven use subservicers…

FHA endorsements rose 16.6 percent from the second quarter and VA loan guaranty production increased 20.3 percent…

CEO Debra Still of Pulte Mortgage blamed low usage on the fact that Fannie and Freddie use different terminology and eligibility criteria for things like area median income.

PHH officials say the company has improved its servicing operations in recent years and agreed to the consent order “to avoid the distraction and expense of litigation.”