Fannie Mae

B. Riley FBR raised its ratings for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell from neutral on the possibility the net worth sweep is declared illegal.

A more than $5 billion offering going up for bid is one of the first large transactions seen since the coronavirus complicated trading.

Fercho will join Wells Fargo in August and report to Mike Weinbach, the bank's CEO of consumer lending.

The high court ruled June 29 that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated the separation of powers.

While very low inventory prevented a full market recovery, pricier home listings only trail year-ago totals by 9.2%, according to Zillow.

A bond market once thought to be key to the futures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and the roughly $5 trillion of home loans they backstop — could instead find itself on the scrap heap due to their own regulator.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance dropped for the third consecutive week, as the growth rate fell 8 basis points between June 22 and June 28, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

While the multifamily loan forbearance rate is lower than the most pessimistic projections, Pat Jackson says borrowers are hardly out of the woods yet.

Legal experts say it is now more likely that the Supreme Court will strike down the single-director governance framework for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator.

Mortgage insurers had been operating under the belief that rules pertaining to natural disaster delinquencies apply with COVID-19, but now it's in writing.