Servicers can begin offering the new option May 1, but must make it available by Jan. 1, 2025.

The MBA was part of a trade group coalition that called on the VA to align minimum property requirements with standards already established by the GSEs.

Lenders can sell agency-eligible mortgages for investment properties and second homes on Maxex's platform.

Lenders delivered $41.06 billion of loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in January.

The correspondent channel accounted for 37.0% of agency deliveries in the fourth quarter, up from a 34.6% share the previous quarter.

Some of Fannie’s lopsided growth may reflect that it took a bigger hit in December...

Issuance in 2022 was helped by lingering loans from the refinance wave while mortgage originations were down sharply in 2023.

The price of preferred shares in Fannie Mae shot up to $4.57 a share in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Leaders at FHA and VA haven't ruled out following the Federal Housing Finance Agency in a shift from a tri-merge score process to a bi-merge process.

One of these days a GSE CEO might rise up and legally challenge the conservatorships. But we're not there yet...