The changed, partisan confirmation process for the new FHFA director has decreased the chances for Congressional action on housing-finance reform.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods says overcapacity in the mortgage industry continues to be a problem...

As industry consultant Paul Hindman noted: “The dramatic swing in mortgage interest rates changed the game big time."

The vote was 52 to 44, along party lines...

The California governor last week appointed a former CFPB enforcement attorney, Manuel Alvarez, as DBO commissioner.

Who knows – maybe Dimon will once again embrace doing business with loan brokers...

Ditech continues to point out in SEC filings that trading in its securities is “highly speculative and poses substantial risks.”

Although Fannie and Freddie were taken over by the government in the fall of 2008, the two have been wildly profitable – with a few bumps along the way – since 2012.

A handful of Democrats could cross party lines and vote for the FHFA nominee...

With Fannie and Freddie earning so much money these days (and returning almost all of it to Uncle Sam) haven’t the two earned the right to lobby Congress regarding their future?