Allison Bisbey

The due-diligence firms that vet loans before securitization are erring on the side of caution when assessing the risk to investors of liability from the new consumer mortgage disclosure rules.

Now that it has the green light to expand its role in multifamily housing, Freddie Mac is looking at more ways to shift the credit risk on apartment building mortgages that it insures.

Greystone, a commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, is adding two executives to a mortgage bond lending team.

Borrowers who have defaulted in the past are generally considered to be a bigger risk than those who have never missed a payment. Yet the early performance of bonds backed by rehabbed residential mortgages is pretty strong.

Fannie Mae has completed its latest Credit Insurance Risk Transfer transaction, the 10th deal since the program's inception in 2013.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency added its voice to the chorus of credit rating agencies downplaying the risks of mortgages that fail to comply with new consumer disclosure rules.

New lender disclosure requirements aren't just disrupting the market for private-label mortgage bonds; they could also impact the market for bonds that transfer credit risk of mortgages insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private sector.

Credit market turmoil continued to take a toll on commercial property prices in February, when Moody's/RCA Commercial Property Price Indices national all-property composite index declined for a second consecutive month.

In a letter to CFPB Director Richard Cordray, the Association of Mortgage Investors said that the "Know Before You Owe" rule has "resulted in a climate of legal uncertainty" and is "chilling" private investment in the U.S. mortgage market.

Freddie Mac has obtained new insurance policies under its Agency Credit Insurance Structure program.