Finance

Housing markets nationwide continued to improve, with more than half of states considered to be within a stable range, Freddie Mac reported in its latest Multi-Indicator Market Index.

CMBS primary issuance won't pick up again until September, according to Barclays.

Freddie Mac announced last week that it will guarantee its second series of SB Certificates, which are backed by multifamily small-balance loans underwritten by Freddie Mac and issued by a third-party trust.

BlackRock Inc. is the latest company planning to finance investors who buy single-family homes, capitalizing on soaring rental demand as the homeownership rate sits at a five-decade low.

Treasuries are proving to be investors' main destination in a global scramble for safety, pushing 10-year yields below 2% for the first time in four months.

Fannie Mae has announced the winning bidder for two pools in its second nonperforming loan sale, which includes roughly 3,900 loans carrying a total of $765 million in unpaid principal balance.

A nascent corner of the market for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds is on a roller coaster ride despite what Morgan Stanley calls the "pristine performance" of the mortgages linked to the debt.

Conforming mortgage rates remained steady despite many indications that the Federal Reserve is considering bumping up short-term interest rates, according Freddie Mac.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency on Wednesday officially increased the target for loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that benefit affordable housing, but the uptick is not satisfying housing advocates.

Sabal Financial Group has put a $541 million portfolio of real estate loans up for sale.

Mortgage lending to low-income families could increase slightly under a plan by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt.

Fannie Mae has closed a credit risk-sharing transaction, with an international reinsurance company participating in this type of deal for the first time.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's decisions to make their automated underwriting systems free to use will feed more data to the GSEs, but do little to better serve lenders and borrowers.

The new supplemental performance metric should encourage lenders to serve lower credit score borrowers.

The Federal Housing Administration's Neighborhood Watch website is back online after crashing about three weeks ago.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a regulatory mandate to shrink. But that's easier said than done, given the GSEs' outsized presence in the mortgage industry, as their latest quarterly results show.

Ginnie Mae guaranteed $47.1 billion of mortgage-backed securities in July, setting a monthly record.

Four more Federal Home Loan Banks have won regulatory approval to participate in a program that allows member institutions to sell jumbo mortgage loans through a conduit to Redwood Trust.

Freddie Mac has begun an auction of delinquent nonperforming loans serviced by Ocwen Financial.

It was a small deal — about 220 U.S. home loans packaged into a $72 million bond offering — but it's looking like a post-crisis milestone.