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...

Overall, California has 99,781 licensed and registered mortgage LOs, far more than any other state…

A year ago, just 12.1 percent of new purchase loans fell into the highest-risk category…

Most of the month-to-month slump was at Freddie, where MBS production fell 8.9 percent from June.

Banks still favor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pass-through securities, but…

Meanwhile, the Mortgage Bankers Association this week reported a substantial decline in its seasonally adjusted mortgage delinquency data series.

Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America were the top producers of jumbo loans in the second quarter…

The biggest increase has been in the new breed of Alt A securities…

Fannie and Freddie stopped acquiring nonprime mortgages during the financial crisis, but they haven’t completely avoided the loans...