Short Takes: Upgrades for GSE CRT / Housing Starts Increase / Housing Market Slows in CA / Figure Stays Busy With HELOC Securitization August 20, 2025 Brandon Ivey “The entire portfolio has experienced overwhelmingly positive rating pressure,” Fitch said of GSE CRT issuance.Read More
Short Takes: New Details on The Great American Mortgage Corp. / Mortgage Applications for New Homes Up / Annaly’s Expanded-Credit MBS Issuance Humming August 19, 2025 Brandon Ivey The Trump administration is describing The Great American Mortgage Corp. as "the all new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: bigger and better than ever."Read More
Fannie Publishes Return on Equity. (It's Complicated) August 18, 2025 Dennis Hollier A footnote in Fannie’s second-quarter earnings presentation explains the calculation.Read More
Private MI Activity Rises With Purchase Mortgages in 2Q August 15, 2025 John Bancroft Private MI covered 16.4% of new mortgage production in the second quarter.Read More
GSE Reform Plans Remain Unclear for MBS Market August 15, 2025 Dennis Hollier Plenty of talk of a GSE IPO but few specifics thus far on the mechanics for the secondary mortgage market.Read More
Pulte Suggests GSE IPO Will Be Small, If It Happens August 14, 2025 Dennis Hollier The FHFA director said the Trump administration's planned sale of GSE stock would be small, if it happened at all.Read More
Short Takes: FHFA Planning to Adjust LLPAs / Foreclosures Increase / Some Urgency on Interest Rates / Morgan Stanley Tapping Hometown Equity Mortgage for Non-QMs August 14, 2025 Brandon Ivey FHFA is working on changes to the GSEs' loan-level price adjustments, according to FHFA Director Bill Pulte.Read More
FICO CEO Critical of FHFA Move on Credit Scores August 12, 2025 Dennis Hollier William Lansing, CEO of Fair Isaac Corp., said the move would encourage lenders to shop for the most lenient credit score in order to qualify more borrowers for GSE loans.Read More
GSE Merger Rumors? GAMC (Not GMAC) August 11, 2025 Dennis Hollier Although President Trump didn’t specifically mention a merger, that appears to be the implication of the post.Read More
Agency MBS Issuance Down Almost 6% in July August 11, 2025 John Bancroft Among the top 10 agency MBS issuers in July, just one was owned by a federally insured depository: Amerihome.Read More