GSEs

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering the sale of a $1.4 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bulk residential mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

New Jersey Community Capital, a nonprofit community development financial institution, made the winning bid for Fannie Mae's third "community impact pool" of nonperforming loans.

The bank's new low-down-payment mortgage, an alternative to FHA loans, dispenses with the complex qualification requirements that have hampered recent efforts with low down payments by Fannie and Freddie.

Loan rates moved up slightly from their 2016 lows as anticipation grows of a rate hike this summer courtesy of the Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac reported.

Recent legislative proposals to make piecemeal changes to the government-sponsored enterprises could set broader GSE reform on the wrong path.

FHFA Director Mel Watt also reiterated concerns regarding insurance companies and large bank members, saying that some Home Loan Banks have large exposures to a few individual members.

The Federal Savings Bank in Chicago has partnered with CondoGrade, a local data company, to provide prospective buyers and sellers of condominiums with information about condo associations.

Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide Financial unit was exonerated of allegations that it sold defective residential mortgage loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with an appeals court throwing out a judgment against the bank of more than $1.2 billion.

An undisclosed independent mortgage banker is selling a $918.6 million Ginnie Mae bulk residential mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appears likely to embrace a recent plan to merge Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single government corporation if she wins the White House.

Now that it has the green light to expand its role in multifamily housing, Freddie Mac is looking at more ways to shift the credit risk on apartment building mortgages that it insures.

Former Wells Fargo executive Mike Heid was voted onto Fannie Mae's board of directors Wednesday.

Compressed inventory and lackluster homebuyer sentiment thanks to tight credit availability has hindered the housing market from performing at its full potential in April, according to First American Financial Corp.

From the Common Security Platform and Freddie Mac loan sales to new accounting rules and what direction mortgage rates are headed, there was plenty to debate during this week's MBA Secondary Conference in New York.

Mortgage rates held near 2016 lows as a result of minimal action in the 10-year Treasury yield over the past week, according to Freddie Mac.

Fannie Mae forecasts flat to declining 30-year mortgage interest rates this year and next, while Freddie Mac thinks they will increase.

The percentage of loan applications which become closed loans slipped from March's high last month, according to Ellie Mae.

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, introduced legislation Thursday to reform consumer credit reporting.

The Indianapolis Federal Home Loan Bank rewarded 43 of its members with a $761,000 payout in May for the performance of their mortgages in an aggregated pool.

Russia's moving into mortgage bonds to try to cut housing costs, and it's taking a leaf out of America's book to do so.