GSEs

Freddie Mac has released a new Web tool aimed at servicers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should provide independent mortgage lenders with clear guidance on how to comply with rules and confirm that good-faith compliance with the bureau's directives will not result in enforcement actions and financial penalties

Freddie Mac has expanded the amount of ongoing loan-level data it discloses about mortgages it insures in an effort to boost appetite for reinsurance.

The market for U.S. mortgage securities without government backing, virtually frozen since the financial crisis that it helped trigger, may get a boost from some of the biggest bond funds on Wall Street.

Ocwen Financial Corp. and Walter Investment Management Corp. both recorded full-year losses in 2015, though that is where comparisons between the two companies cease.

Radian Guaranty is filing a new rate structure, lowering its premiums for higher-quality borrowers and raising them for those with lower credit scores.

Redwood Trust is "repositioning" its mortgage business by focusing mainly on jumbo loans, according to its top executives.

Fannie Mae touted its financial support to the small multifamily loan market last year, saying it provided $1.6 billion in financing to the sector.

Understanding how consumers pay their debts over time is expected to widen access to credit for consumers recovering from financial problems or who were hard to score before. Just how many it will benefit is an open debate.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages fell this week, according to Freddie Mac, after a small rally in the previous two weeks.

Fannie Mae has sold a pool of about $13.2 million of nonperforming loans to New Jersey Community Capital.

Home prices rose 5.8% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier as buyers competed for a tight supply of listings.

An increased level of home-purchase mortgage applications led to continued improvement in the U.S. housing market in December, according to Freddie Mac.

Purchases of new homes dropped more than forecast in January as contract signings slumped in the western U.S. by the most since May 2010.

Meaningful rules encouraging Fannie and Freddie to do more with manufactured housing would allow more lenders into the market and make pricing more competitive.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is building a U.S. mortgage-bond trading team as tough lending conditions in Japan spur the nation's biggest bank to expand overseas.

Sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly rose in January to the second-highest pace since early 2007, indicating the industry will keep prospering.

The affordable housing market has dried up in major cities across the country. In response, regulators and lenders are looking into new programs to get people back into single-family homes while also exploring ways to encourage multifamily developments.

Bank of America on Monday will launch a 3% down payment home loan in partnership with Freddie Mac, but the bank will not retain any risk if the loans default. That’s because it will immediately will sell the loans and servicing rights to Self-Help Federal Credit Union, a Durham, N.C., community development lender that's on a mission to put more low- and moderate-income families into homes of their own.

The government-sponsored enterprise was enthusiastic about launching the 97% loan-to-value product when it announced it in December 2014. But it has yet to become a sizable part of Fannie's business.