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The lender relationships resulted from a partnership the government-sponsored enterprise entered into with a non-profit housing group.

Former Jefferies & Co. Managing Director Jesse Litvak says he should be spared prison when he is sentenced later this month following his conviction of a single count of fraud.

Global Index Group has developed a new product based on the NCREIF Property Index, which measures the performance of some $525 billion of CRE held on behalf of tax-exempt institutions.

Agency mortgage-backed securities issuance increased in 2016, rising to $1.6 trillion from $1.3 trillion, while nonagency mortgage securitization issuance decreased.

Returns from funds investing primarily in government-related mortgage securities were stronger in the first quarter than they were in the fourth quarter of 2016, but aren't quite as strong as in the first quarter of 2016.

Castle & Cooke Mortgage launched a consumer-direct unit that is focused on capturing repeat business from its existing servicing customers.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages rose again in March, led by industrial and retail property loans.

Freddie Mac has obtained two new insurance policies under its Agency Credit Insurance Structure program.

Fourteen institutional investors represented by the law firm Gibbs & Bruns are supporting the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy plan administrator's offer to settle certain securitized mortgage repurchase claims with securities' trustees.

Risk management concerns were responsible for a five-percentage-point reduction in bank non-qualified mortgage lending last year.