Of course, mortgage historians know that Berkshire took a bite at the GSE apple a few decades back. In 2000, Berkshire was one of the largest shareholders in Freddie...

In recent years, mortgages funded by Quicken have been included in prime non-agency MBS issued by others, but this is the first deal backed solely by loans originated by Quicken and serviced by the firm.

New Residential will assume some of Ditech’s office space and roughly 1,100 workers will be offered employment at the REIT.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a political issue in the 2020 election? Not by a long shot...

Over the past 60 days, some “big name sellers” having been testing the waters of the MSR market, said one advisor…

Ditech, in the coming days, expects to close on its previously announced asset sale to New Residential Investment Corp. The REIT is scheduled to purchase most of the nonbank’s servicing portfolio and what’s left of its origination platform.

Although origination volumes appear to be strong these days, some mortgage executives are already worrying about what might happen next year...

The hike in the retained earnings threshold was widely anticipated and the news hardly budged the share price of Fannie/Freddie common.

Recent Treasury Department figures show foreign holdings of agency MBS grew by $42.9 billion from March to June…

Freddie Mac declined to say how much credit it had extended under the pilot, though a spokesman said it was under $1 billion.