The final rule from the FHFA also simplifies the standard for issuing suspension orders...

“It is likely that Fannie Mae could have survived the financial crisis without the intervention of the Treasury,” the authors argue.

The new approach is expected to be a more cost-effective route than going through the repeated repurchase requests that have plagued lenders over the years.

In the past, the duty to serve rule has received a great deal of attention from manufactured housing executives who argue the GSEs are not purchasing enough of their loans.

Compass Point predicts the measure now has a 40 percent to 60 percent chance of passage under the omnibus spending bill.

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

The average loan-to-value ratio of the NPLs is 91 percent, based on the broker price opinion.

However, the note rate was not disclosed. The originator of record is Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital...

Edward Pinto, former chief credit officer of Fannie Mae who now studies housing trends for AEI, disputes NAR’s data and describes the first-time buyer market as “booming.”

G-fees were tapped in a recent highway transportation bill, but eventually the language was stripped from the measure…