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The collapse of securities tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac punished some of Wall Street's best known money managers, with star investor Bruce Berkowitz's main mutual fund losing about $600 million.

A lawsuit filed by low-income housing advocates designed to force the Federal Housing Finance Agency to provide money to a housing trust fund has been blocked by a U.S. district court judge.

Lenders desperately want to make potentially lucrative home loans to those with less-than-stellar credit, but only a few are willing to try given legal uncertainties. Here's how a few are designing their products to get a jump on the competition.

AllRegs has begun publishing FHA single-family policies on its publishing platform.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged in early trading after investors including Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management LLC lost a legal bid yesterday to force the bailed-out companies to share profits with private shareholders.

Hefty penalty seems 'puzzling' since the Seattle and Des Moines FHLB merger seems on track to be the first voluntary merger in the 82-year history of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which attracted investors such as hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman even as the mortgage giants hand over their profits to taxpayers, are tumbling again.

Commercial real estate lender Walker & Dunlop has added three originators to a conduit and high-yield lending joint venture with Fortress Investment Group.

Municipal Mortgage & Equity will change its name to MMA Capital Management LLC, effective Sept. 29.

The Federal Home Loan banks of Seattle and Des Moines announced Thursday that their boards have unanimously approved a definitive agreement to merge.