Finance

Kroll Bond Ratings Agency said in a report to expect more of the aggressive growth the market has seen since the liquidity crisis.

Matt Woolley, vice president of sales at LoanLogics, said lenders selling their loans are getting away from a “ship and hope” mentality, leading to better business relationships with investors and ultimately better prices.

Credit unions have grown increasing dependent on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the past five years as a source of liquidity and access to the secondary market.

Gains in the two desert cities Las Vegas and Phoenix are the biggest since the height of the real estate boom, just before their plunge to the bottom of the national housing collapse.

Nearly all the individual real estate investment trusts investing in agency single-family mortgage-backed securities suffered quarter-to-quarter losses in book value due to market volatility.

Waterstone Mortgage Corp., Pewaukee, Wis., has been approved by Ginnie Mae as a mortgage-backed securities issuer.

Fannie Mae is putting another Benchmark Notes offering in the pipeline, a new issue five-year deal due Sept. 18, 2018.

NAFCU’s Economic & CU Monitor shows Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play an outsized role in the credit union industry’s mortgage products.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has priced its first collateralized debt obligation backed by commercial real estate of 2013.

Standard & Poor’s finds there could be negative implications for municipal housing bonds with Washington considering as part of tax reform the elimination or reduction of mortgage interest, property taxes and municipal bond interest.

The transaction was completed for $50 million in cash and is expected to close in the next few weeks.

Two Harbors’ vice president, CFO and treasurer Brad Farrell on Friday bought 750 shares of the company’s stock, according to a SEC filing.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ignoring billions of dollars in potential losses on delinquent loans as they take three years to adopt a new accounting system, a government auditor said in a letter made public today.

Lenders One management has faced many of the same issues as its members, said CEO Jeff McGuiness.

We're hearing that the declining liquidity of Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities is raising concerns in Washington and on Wall Street.

This qualified residential mortgage proposal will not require 20% downpayment loans for private-label securities issuers to escape risk retention—where they would have to retain 5% of credit risk.

Executives at one of the latest jumbo securitizers to put a deal in the pipeline also have other irons in the fire.

Fitch Ratings warned that the potential mortgage-related use of eminent domain in some California communities could affect future lending in those areas.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities deal priced its short dated, 2.47-year, class A1 tranche at 55 basis points.

In a move aimed at reducing its cost of funds, Eastern Virginia Bankshares is retiring debt owed to the Federal Home Loan Bank System.