Ironically, providers of attorney opinion letters — an alternative to title insurance — may need insurance to compete with title insurers.

Researchers say Fannie’s new social index serves as a successful spec pool story, generating meaningful pay-ups for social bonds that can help subsidize mission-related activities.

Despite thousands of responses to its RFI, FHFA has settled on a list of protections that is unlikely to make tenants feel much safer.

The FHLBank of Chicago followed the FHLBank of San Francisco in accepting mortgage collateral that uses the new credit score model.

Patrice Ficklin is leaving the CFPB to return to Fannie after a 15-year absence.

Researchers find that the climate-related increase in flood damage will boost the cost of subsidizing federal mortgage programs by 44% over the next 30 years. That doesn’t include the costs to homeowners, lenders, insurers or MBS investors.

In some parts of the country, the giant home builder shelled out incentives of as much as $81,700 per home delivered, most of that in the form of interest rate buydowns.

Fitch Ratings sees relatively smooth sailing for residential MBS this year while times are tough in the CMBS market, and the worst could be yet to come.

Fed researchers quantify the effect of BTFP’s use of par valuations for collateral during the 2023 banking crisis.

One issue: Because lenders don’t bear property insurance risks, they have little incentive to screen for counterparty quality...