Falling origination volumes and a return to loan-loss provisions point to lower net income for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through the end of the year.

Agencies and regulators are seeking stakeholder input on how to improve lending and securitization in the manufactured home space.

These new placeholder certificates are expected to become the primary way to purchase the A-M and A-2 classes of Freddie K-deals.

Mr. Cooper will be the first to directly integrate its proprietary servicing system with Resolve, Freddie Mac's default management tool...

Depositories had 43.0% of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac servicing in the second quarter of 2022.

Just like private market participants, the Fed is experiencing unrealized losses on its massive holdings of agency MBS and Treasury securities.

The timing of credit-related benefits and losses affected the profits of Fannie and Freddie in the first half of 2022. (Includes data chart.)

The gap in GSE servicing volume between Chase Home Finance and Wells Fargo continued to narrow in the second quarter of 2022. (Includes two data charts.)

The former FHFA director said, given the Federal Reserve’s commitment to fight inflation, home prices could fall by double digits in percentage terms over the next few years.

Conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the Federal Reserve’s exit from the MBS market is helping drive up interest rates in the affordable housing space. The remedy, he said, is GSE reform.