Through the first eight months of the year, Ginnie issuance was down 11.0 percent...

The nation’s PMIs have made a significant dent in the first-timer market, insuring a greater volume of mortgages guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie…

August often sets the high-water mark for annual purchase-loan business for the agencies…

Only a trace amount – 0.5 percent – of unresolved buyback cases were related to loans purchased by the GSEs before 2009.

For many depositories, there’s a significant mismatch between their reported mortgage banking income and what’s on their call reports…

In fact, bank ABS investment began to taper off at about the same time the supply of ABS outstanding began to grow again.

The tax code includes several provisions that address whether the exchange of property is subject to taxation.

HECM originations plunged 40.9 percent in the second quarter as tighter reverse-mortgage regulations limited the product’s appeal to borrowers…

Both government-sponsored enterprises are comfortably within the maximum $250.0 billion mortgage portfolios they are permitted to have under the terms of their conservatorship.

The residential mortgage market took an unusual turn in the second quarter as retail production gained ground under conditions that generally favor third-party channels...