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Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are pressuring Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuch to provide more details on administration plans to end the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Fitch may use a new Structured Finance Association framework aimed at prioritizing only riskier TRID errors to assign grades to loans sold into residential mortgage-backed securities, reducing rating-related compliance burdens.

Issuance of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities slipped after several months of gains, but high volume still pushed the year-to-date total for 2019 ahead of 2018’s full-year figure.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has proposed a plan that would exempt the Federal Home Loan Banks from conducting stress tests.

Star investor Jeffrey Gundlach and his team have generated strong returns by focusing on under-followed pockets of the market like mortgage securities, but his success may be hard to replicate.

Freddie Mac launched a groundbreaking multifamily structured pass-through deal that includes a class of floating rate bonds indexed to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate for the first time ever.

As home value appreciation keeps churning, the share of those upside down on their mortgage grows smaller than ever, according to CoreLogic's Home Equity Report.

Mortgage lenders became slightly bearish on their profitability outlook in the fourth quarter, with the competitive landscape and shift to a purchase market cited as the main concerns, according to Fannie Mae.

Hometap, a fintech company providing an alternative to traditional home equity lending, secured $100 million in new financing as it looks to expand its geographic reach.

Blackstone Real Estate Partners is planning a $1.7 billion bond sale secured by a commercial mortgage loan that financed its newly acquired controlling interests in Great Wolf Lodge waterpark entertainment resort properties.