GSEs

High loan-to-value ratio lending is gaining ground, spurred by the reintroduction 12 months ago of GSE-backed products that only require a 3% down payment, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Fannie Mae has updated its underwriter servicing tool to make it easier for servicers to determine the eligibility of distressed homeowners for a loan modification.

Freddie Mac has sold about $1.1 billion of seriously delinquent loans serviced by Wells Fargo.

Seven years after the housing bubble collapsed, Wall Street's appetite for riskier mortgages is returning.

Fannie Mae just took out a potential chunk of private label CMBS supply. The government-sponsored enterprise said it's helping fund Blackstone's purchase of Stuyvesant Town.

More consumers expressed worries about the housing market, as prospects for higher income remained suppressed, Fannie Mae said.

HLP, formerly known as Hope LoanPort, has selected CoreLogic executive Faith Schwartz as chair of its board of directors.

Legislative proposals to reform the housing finance system have failed to garner enough support, but a surprisingly simply reform idea is in plain sight: deeper private mortgage insurance coverage.

Mortgage rates went down as Treasury yields fell on weak manufacturing data, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

JPMorgan is sounding the alarm about bank capital rules on the horizon that could nearly wipe out secondary trading in most kinds of asset-backed securities.