The flow of first-time buyer loans was up 20.0% from the first five months of 2019...

To some, the rule's $243 billion minimum leverage capital requirement means the GSEs can’t generate enough profits to attract investors...

All three agencies recorded declining purchase-mortgage volume...

The new unemployment report from Uncle Sam is out Friday morning. It will not be pretty...

But the first quarter was just a prelude to the crescendo of refinance activity in April and May. A whopping $323.4 billion of refi loans were securitized by the GSEs and Ginnie during the past two months...

Black Knight estimates that based on its reading of May 26, MBS servicers need to advance $3.6 billion a month to investors in government MBS on forborne loans and an additional $1.5 billion for real estate taxes and insurance.

Originally grubstaked by Wall Street and once the recipient of a large loan from Fannie Mae, the REIT saw the average occupancy rate of its SF units increase to a record-high 97.5%...

How worried should lenders be about the self-employed and small business owners?

The senators write: “The CFPB and FHFA must also have plans to use their respective tools and authorities to immediately address trends that indicate borrowers are receiving inaccurate information or unequal treatment, or that servicers are not complying with the law.”

Fannie said 20 companies participated in the CIRT transaction...