Finance

Its demise put Rhode Island on the hook for a $75 million loan guarantee.

We're hearing that the days of 30-year fixed mortgage rates below 4% may be over.

Denmark is warning that the world’s biggest mortgage market per capita is again under threat from a proposal by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp. plans to conduct a registered initial public offering of its common stock.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it raised its long-term issuer credit rating on District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency by one notch to A from A-minus.

The relatively weak financial strength of certain originators and sunset provisions on the backstop by the seller still demand additional protections.

U.S. home-loan bonds without government backing tumbled last month to leave several types of the debt trading at their lowest prices of the year.

The number of securitized U.S. commercial mortgage loans transferred into special servicing has dropped substantially at roughly 45% over the last year.

Fitch expects the data to be of interest as the agencies’ regulators have directed them to test nonagency risk-sharing transactions this year.

Roughly in step with other markets, structured finance pricing and issuance in June was governed by questions of how quickly the Federal Reserve would rein in its asset-buying spree.

A credit union vice president joins those expecting the second half of 2013 to bring a slow but steady increase in mortgage rates.

Loan acquisitions by Fannie Mae edged up by nearly 1% from April to $78 billion in May.

Government-backed mortgage bonds declined after a two-day rally, extending quarterly losses that are on track to be the worst in almost two decades.

We're hearing the Corker-Warner GSE reform bill will really drive up the cost of plain-vanilla mortgages.

Some clarity may eventually emerge from a slew of lawsuits that are slowly working their way through the legal system.

Rep. Mel Watt defended his judgment and experience with housing issues during a hearing on his nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The prices of loans supporting commercial mortgage backed securities decreased 60 basis points between the end of April and the end of May

Prudential Financial’s Michael Lillard said investors should buy commercial mortgage-backed securities and other bonds that fell on concerns the Federal Reserve will slow its pace of debt purchases.

GE Capital Real Estate is increasing lending this year as deals accelerate and the cost of borrowing jumps in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market.