Almost all the temporary seller flexibilities FHFA put in place because of the pandemic have either been retired or incorporated into the normal selling guides.

The lawsuit brought by fair housing organizations focused on Fannie Mae’s maintenance and marketing of its real estate-owned properties, that is, homes acquired through foreclosure.

Nonbanks continued to gobble up market share among GSE MBS servicers, jumping from a 50.3% share a year ago to 56.2% at the end of 2021. (Includes two data charts.)

GSEs issue lender letters/bulletins tweaking their guidelines for lenders and servicers.

The mortgage giant is tied by an alphabet soup to the even larger cloud giant.

The new system should be able to gather most of the rent roll data directly from popular property management systems.

Fannie still has a substantially larger amount of single-family servicing outstanding, but Freddie grew its book significantly faster in the third quarter. Bulk MSR transfers accounted for some big shifts in the GSE servicing market. (Includes two data charts.)

The enterprise will use limited powers of attorney to handle unrecorded assignments for non-MERS loans.

Landlords are challenging the more-targeted ban, saying it still illegally deprives them of their ability to collect rents.

Nonbank servicers used the MSR secondary market and organic growth to boost their portfolios of Fannie and Freddie servicing. There was also a surge in GSE servicing among smaller banks. (Includes two data charts.)