FHFA Director Mel Watt is urging the mortgage industry “to get ready now to ensure smooth, successful implementation.”

Housing-finance reform appears to be in the process of a slow death for 2018 partly because of the pending departure of key players.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported this week that the GSEs completed 67,569 foreclosure prevention actions in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Former Fannie Mae executive and critic of the government-sponsored enterprises’ credit-risk transfer programs, Tim Howard, said on his blog this week that CRTs only help “sustain what has become a very profitable program for Wall Street firms and capital market investors.”

Freddie Mac announced its first non-performing loan sale of the year this week.

Consumers who take part in homebuyer education and counseling classes are more satisfied with the mortgage process.

The Urban Institute believes Fannie and Freddie could be wound down within five years and be replaced by new entities with no government backstop…

After reporting a $44.9 million loss for the fourth quarter, Impac’s share price fell to a new 52-week low...

The Urban Institute argues the FHFA’s thinking on alternative credit scores doesn’t go far enough…

The New York Fed argues that CRTs have reduced the GSEs’ exposure to mortgage credit risk without disrupting the stability of the secondary mortgage market…