Analysts believe there is enough house price appreciation in many areas to lubricate the home equity sector again...

Fannie and Freddie have securitized roughly 80.8 percent of conventional-conforming mortgages over the first nine months of the year.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency “should require the GSEs to be much more transparent in their risk-sharing transactions,” said the Urban Institute in a new report.

Black Knight Financial also said that despite the reintroduction of Fannie’s and Freddie’s 97 LTV product, the FHA/VA continues to dominate low downpayment lending.

An estimated $117.1 billion of mortgages exceeding the baseline conforming loan limit of $417,000 were originated during the third quarter.

Slip, sliding away: commercial banks and loans-serviced-for others...

It's that time of the season: MBS issuance was down 30.6 percent at Fannie and off 17.4 percent at Freddie.

During the worst of the buyback storm in late 2012 and early 2013, the GSEs reported over $18.51 billion of unresolved repurchase requests and as much as $13.22 billion in buybacks during a single quarter.

The refinance market was soft as well. The agencies securitized $37.48 billion of refinance loans during November, down 12.3 percent from the previous month.

At the same time, credit standards – at least in the agency market – have eased only slightly over the past two years...