GSEs

Carrington Mortgage Services has added conventional loans to the portfolio of products offered by its wholesale lending division.

Home prices rose 5.9% in April from a year earlier as job growth spurred competition for a limited number of listings.

Fannie Mae has released the details of its next sale of nonperforming loans, including the fourth "community impact" pool the government-sponsored enterprise has offered.

U.S. prosecutors have abandoned their case against Angelo Mozilo, a pioneer of the risky subprime mortgages that fueled the financial crisis, after a two-year quest to bring a civil suit against him.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage saw interest rates fall to the lowest level in three years as expectations for the Federal Reserve's June meeting and Britain's potential exit from the European Union drove investors to the safety of U.S. bonds.

Costs for finishing Fannie Mae's new headquarters have increased $36 million without the knowledge of the Federal Housing Finance Agency employee responsible for monitoring the project, the agency's inspector general claims.

Seneca Mortgage Servicing has chosen Nationstar Mortgage Holdings as the subservicer for its existing mortgage servicing rights portfolio as well as for future acquisitions.

Fears about repurchase requests made by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac persisted beyond the crisis, but those fears don't match actual repurchase numbers.

So far, 2016 has brought legal battles, election woes and TRID-related headaches to the mortgage industry, among many other major issues.

Lender sentiment toward housing has improved during the second quarter, with lenders reporting higher demand for purchase mortgages, according to Fannie Mae.