The trade group argues that a likely shift to a single-bureau credit pull may not actually lower rates and could add risk to the system.

Freddie is revising its liquidity verification documentation requirements for sponsors to include a liquidity verification worksheet with delivery of the full underwriting package.

Fannie alerts seller/servicers to stiffer fraud detection rules. For example, lenders have 24 hours to report any borrower if they’re found on the Department of Treasury’s foreign assets control sanctions list.

If the merger of Rocket Mortgage and Mr. Cooper had been completed in time to include third-quarter numbers, the resulting company would have had a GSE servicing portfolio approaching $1.0 trillion.

Fannie modifies how it treats income from ADUs; Freddie requires large servicers to undergo annual AICPA security examinations.

Freddie board member jumps to Fannie board; a week of CAS and STACR tender offers; and seller/servicer guidance for the shutdown.

Regulatory approval of the merged company creates the second-largest GSE seller and by far the largest GSE servicer.

Although total GSE servicing remained almost unchanged as of the end of the second quarter, some large servicers — mostly nonbanks — experienced disproportionate year-over-year gains in volume. (Includes two data tables.)

By some estimates, the average short sale or a foreclosure costs the GSEs $19,000 more than putting the borrower through a home-retention program.

Fannie and Freddie both issued sellers guide updates alerting lenders to upcoming changes to UAD 3.6 and URAR. Other updates affect quality control procedures, measurement standards and attorney fees.