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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will let borrowers who have gone through foreclosure buy back their homes at market prices under a policy shift announced by the regulator for the two U.S.-owned companies.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Nationstar Mortgage's ratings in several servicer categories.

Credit Suisse's DLJ Mortgages is marketing a reperforming mortgage securitization, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The risk that the failure to refinance a loan collateralizing a single-family rental securitization would cascade into a "widespread" decline in property prices is low, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Home prices experienced a 0.01% decline in September, though they are up 4.6% from the same time last year, according to the Black Knight Home Price Index.

The national delinquency rate fell to a seven-year low through October, according to data from Black Knight Financial Services.

Bond investors are wresting higher yields from landlords in the fledgling business where rental homes are financed by credit markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposal Thursday that would institute new foreclosure protections for consumers after the agency found its previous mortgage rules didn't go far enough.

Essent Group has priced a $267 million secondary public offering of its common stock.

Only eleven months after cheering Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt's confirmation, Senate Democrats are fed up with the pace of reforms at the agency.