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Issuance of CMBS has been torrid recently, with overall sales this year through Monday of $69.7 billion.

The successor to Michael Hutchins, who filled the role on an interim basis, guided a well-known bank's real estate business through the financial crisis.

Ginnie Mae had tried to slow the pace of Texas Capital Bank's case and move it to a different court but the judge rejected its legal arguments for doing so.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development affiliate is adding data elements in line with a larger industry goal and advancing other promised initiatives.

Doug Duncan joined Fannie Mae in 2008 after holding the chief economist position at the Mortgage Bankers Association for almost 16 years.

Treasuries have returned 1.7% this month through Aug. 28, on pace for a fourth straight monthly gain, according to the Bloomberg US Treasury Total Return Index.

The latest proposal for the two government-sponsored enterprises' affordable housing targets scales down some benchmarks for a tough market, but also raises one.

Trade groups welcome a proposed reverse-mortgage option for buyouts and are working with Ginnie Mae to hammer out the final operational details.

The revisions also revise how the surplus is calculated to evaluate risk of the bonds used as part of the available asset portion of the capital requirements.

From a "dislocation" in single-family servicing to a spike in a multifamily performance indicator, Q2 numbers point to emerging opportunities and risks.