GSEs

How interested banks, REITs and other investors will be in replacing the Federal Reserve as buyers of mortgage-backed securities insured by government-related entities depends on a wide range of regulatory and economic factors.

Ocwen Financial's shares had fallen nearly 7% Friday afternoon, to under $10 apiece, a day after Standard & Poor's Ratings Services put the company's servicer ratings on CreditWatch negative.

Mortgage credit availability rose less than 1% in May, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Freddie Mac's weekly survey of the primary mortgage market found average interest rates for conforming loan products to be fairly stable.

The share of high loan-to-value ratio purchase loans is at a two-year high, according to RealtyTrac's 2015 Down Payment Report for the first quarter, released Thursday.

Rep. Edward Royce, R-Calif., urged fellow House members Wednesday to support a Senate proposal that would make significant reforms to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A global bond-market slump pushed yields on benchmark U.S. mortgage securities to the highest level in more than seven months, signaling potential pressure on the American housing market amid its peak selling season.

Buyers of the unrated B tranche, which transfers the first 100 basis points of losses when homeowners default, will be paid a spread of 795 basis points over one-month Libor.

Weekly demand for mortgage loans continues its trend of being consistently inconsistent.

Farmer Mac officials are confident about the stability and continued performance of the loans on their books, even as the agricultural industry faces headwinds like the California drought and recent decline in corn prices.

The type of reinsurance product that private mortgage insurers hold likely won't matter for meeting the GSEs' new capital requirements, said the CEO of Genworth Mortgage Insurance.

Private mortgage insurers are willing to offer "deep coverage" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's risk-sharing deals, but only after a premium structure is negotiated with lenders and the GSEs.

As nonbank lenders continue to grow their stake in the mortgage industry, researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School argue that regulatory reforms should come to lower the risk associated with these institutions.

The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages improved in the first quarter for most categories of investor, on higher property income, rising property values and a strong finance market.

The merger of the Federal Home Loan Banks in Des Moines and Seattle became official on Monday, shrinking the overall number of banks in the system to 11.

Constraints on GSE loan volume and an overall dearth of liquidity were among the biggest issues at hand during the Mortgage Bankers Association's Secondary Market Conference in New York. Here's a recap of the event.

New servicing standards issued by the government-sponsored enterprises are unlikely to pose a hurdle for the biggest nonbank players in the market, but small servicers could find it more challenging.

Mortgage rates climbed, lifting borrowing costs for homebuyers to the highest for 2015.

Freddie Mac auctioned off 1,052 delinquent nonperforming loans serviced by Ocwen on May 21 as part of its Standard Pool Offerings.

Freddie Mac's monthly Multi-Indicator Market Index showed almost 80% of the top 100 housing markets in the country continued to improve in March from February.