It appears that the Senate is ready to tackle industry complaints about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pilot programs. The Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee announced this week that they will hold a hearing on Oct. 18 to discuss the oversight of pilot programs at the government-sponsored enterprises. …

 This week the Federal Housing Finance Agency asked for input on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s proposed Duty to Serve Plan modification for 2018-2020. Fannie’s proposal includes modifying actions to reflect revised rural investment targets based on enhanced market insight and experience since re-entering the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity market. Fannie also proposes making low income housing tax credit equity investments in 20 properties in 2018, 30 properties in 2019 and 30 properties in…

Purchase mortgages accounted for 71.4 percent of third-quarter GSE business…

EquiFi plans to license its shared equity product to other originators…

MI analysts agree that other than a few tweaks, the new PMIER requirements aren’t terribly different than the original proposal…

A few months back, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered Fannie Me and Freddie to end their involvement in SFR financial arrangements. However, any deals in progress were allowed to close...

As press time, Lindberg’s spokesman, Chuck Norman of S&A Communications, had not returned several emails and telephone calls regarding the subpoenas.

Gateway Mortgage of Oklahoma is in a hiring mode these days...

The major driver was a 16.8 percent jump in Fannie Mae issuance…

This executive, like many interviewed, called it an example of charter creep. Freddie and the FHFA think otherwise…