“The new year has all of us in the MSR market off to a running start as we see increases in mortgage rates and lower originations leading to greater demand, allowing for improved pricing of the MSR asset,” said Tom Piercy, managing director of Incenter Mortgage Advisors, Denver.

Most complaints from seniors over the past two years centered on conventional mortgages…

The MSR auction calendar is starting to look crowded…

It appears that Pershing Square is now under water on its GSE investments...

The agency will issue seven more RFIs in the coming weeks on such topics as complaint reporting and inherited rules.

Borrowers with credit scores below 700 accounted for 22.03 percent of GSE purchase loans last year…

One trade group official said a new FHFA director might be hell-bent on reducing the federal footprint in mortgages…

Levine said there’s demand for retail operations…

Movement locked rates on $1.1 billion of mortgages in January, an 11 percent increase from the same month a year ago. It called the improvement an "indicator of future growth in February and March.”

After a long hiatus, in 2017 Fannie and Freddie reinstated their first contribution to the National Housing Trust Fund, which amounted to roughly $186 million. Fannie plans to contribute $239 million to the trust funds this quarter, Freddie $114 million.