GSEs

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages lowered for the first time in four weeks, Freddie Mac reported.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency appears poised finally to allow principal reductions, but it's been nearly a decade since the mortgage crisis and underwater borrowers are much fewer thanks to higher home values.

The agency may finally be reaching resolution on whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will allow principal reductions, two years into Director Mel Watt's tenure as agency director and nearly a decade after the mortgage bubble burst.

Fannie Mae is marketing its second offering of the year of Connecticut Avenue Securities transferring the credit risk on mortgages that it insures.

Home prices rose in January as shoppers competed for a limited inventory of listings.

A $6.2 billion, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bulk portfolio of mortgage servicing rights has gone up for auction, with final bids due March 29.

The Manufactured Housing Institute is calling on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to push the government-sponsored enterprises to purchase chattel loans.

Fixed-rate mortgage rates rose for the third straight week, in part due to higher inflation, Freddie Mac reported.

While the $1.9 billion of bonds are not guaranteed by the government, most of the underlying loans could have been sold to Fannie and Freddie, and the transaction accomplishes the same thing as the GSEs' risk-transfer deals.

Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

JPMorgan Chase is preparing one of the largest private-label mortgage securitizations since the financial crisis.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gave $186 million to the National Housing Trust Fund, their first such contributions to a fund designed to provide construction and rehabilitation of rental housing for low-income families.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages rose for the second straight week, according to Freddie Mac.

With U.S. mortgage rates near their lowest level since April and showing signs of falling further, some lenders are preparing for another refinancing wave, an unexpected development after the Federal Reserve began hiking short-term interest rates in December.

Genworth Mortgage Insurance Corp. plans to change its pricing structure for borrower-paid policies.

The former Freddie Mac chief executive who joined the board of PHH Corp. during a 2009 proxy fight will resign as a director later this year.

Consumers were feeling moderately confident about the housing market in February, Fannie Mae said.

Contrary to claims of anticompetitive practices, manufactured housing industry leaders want to increase the number of lenders offering financing.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates dropped in the fourth quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages rose slightly on a weekly basis, as the market waits on the Fed to resume its interest rate hikes, according to Freddie Mac.