Total lender buybacks fell 14.4% last year…

FHFA’s Mary Ellen Taylor noted the project aims to increase liquidity in the to-be announced MBS market and is not an effort to combine Fannie and Freddie into one entity.

NAR makes a persuasive case that Fannie and Freddie should be restructured as strictly regulated, shareholder-owned utilities…

A Freddie spokesman confirmed to us what we’ve always assumed: “We are not a primary lender.”

And here’s another farce: Once the system is built, maintaining it will be cheap (because regulations and products never change)…

The biggest increase in held-to-maturity and available-for-sale accounts was in agency pass-through securities…

Verus first launched its acquisition program in 2015. As of the end of October, the company had purchased mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $3 billion…

The SEC filing does not state the purpose of the investment...

Doyle noted it was the first time in a while that GSE-eligible loans put out for bid to non-agency investors failed to trade.

United Shore Financial Services originated 60.6% of the collateral…