GSEs

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be put through receivership and turned into lender-owned insurers under a housing-finance overhaul plan co-authored by the companies' former regulator.

Freddie Mac investors will now have access to loan-level disclosures with FICO credit scores calculated from Experian consumer credit data.

The deadline has arrived for mandatory submissions to the Federal Housing Administration's Electronic Appraisal Delivery portal, but as many as one-third of lenders that originate FHA-insured mortgages have yet to use the new system.

The market gyrations following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union have an upside for mortgage lenders, as already-falling interest rates are expected to boost home purchases and refinancing.

For the first time, Ginnie Mae has edged out Freddie Mac as the second largest securitization platform.

The U.S. government's decision to take all profits from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was the right thing to do even in light of the companies' subsequent return to profitability, a former Treasury Department official said..

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering the sale of a $1.6 billion Freddie Mac residential mortgage servicing rights portfolio for an undisclosed independent mortgage banker.

Fannie Mae has delayed the roll out of its new automated underwriting system that will require mortgage lenders to use trended data for the first time in submitting their loans for approval.

Mortgage rates are up two basis points over the previous week, but they are not increasing as fast as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield.

Industry and consumer groups are calling on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to reduce the loan fees that homebuyers have to pay on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteed mortgage loans.