Servicing

Lewis S. Ranieri, who helped pioneer conventional mortgage-backed securities in the early 1980s, is proposing a fix for the nation's housing mess.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hiked their guarantee fees in 2010, but the 10 largest seller/servicers to the GSEs continued to pay lower G-fees than their smaller competitors, according to a new report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Default servicing technology provider DecisionReady this week released a new compliance management module designed to aid servicers in handling their relationships with vendors.

Several large Wall Street firms that played a key role in financing nonprime lenders this week asked a federal judge to dismiss a nearly $2 billion civil fraud lawsuit filed by the trustee of Thornburg Mortgage, the now defunct jumbo/super jumbo lender.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is still falling short when it comes to keeping a watchful eye on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

House and Senate appropriators are giving the Government National Mortgage Association more flexibility to increase its staff despite Congressional emphasis on budget cutting and reducing deficits.

Residential loan brokers increased their origination market share by more than a full point in the second quarter, a sign that the sector may be gaining some momentum.

The Mortgage Bankers Association will resume running the day-to-day operations of its MISMO subsidiary on Dec. 1, taking the task back from Merscorp, which has been handling those duties since February 2009.

The Federal Reserve Thursday morning released its 2010 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act database, concluding that a drop in the maximum GSE loan limit to $625,500 (from $729,750) will have only a "small" impact on mortgage originations going forward.

Home prices rose by almost 1% in July after a 0.7% increase in June, according to the new house price index released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.