The Federal Open Market Committee left unchanged its plans to reduce the Federal Reserve’s holdings of agency MBS.

The tide may be turning for MBS-gobbling real estate investment trusts. If you’re an investor looking for a buy-low, sell-high trade, this may be it. That is, as long as rates don’t reverse course and head higher. Meanwhile, it’s almost a year since SoFi became an FDIC-insured bank.

Plaza is offering two options, both of them seller-paid...

The new regulation focuses on percentages rather than absolute numbers.

Sellers and homebuilders are increasingly reaching for an old mortgage tool to make their homes more attractive to potential buyers.

Freddie believes the change would be especially appropriate for refis that benefit consumers in a concrete way...

Investors appear increasingly reluctant to sell their credit-risk transfer notes back to the enterprises at the prices Fannie and Freddie are offering.

The 2017 revisions to Basel III may impact the capital treatment of securitizations, but not before 2025.

Interest rates keep falling but has a trough been reached? And if so, have REITs been bottomfishing in conventional MBS? Also, what’s the outlook for 2023 in terms of capital raises?

Fannie and Freddie recommend the CFPB amend the qualified mortgage rule so that more borrowers, particularly those with small-balance loans, are eligible for refinancing.