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Varde Partners has closed a $500 million fund that will invest in real estate securities, the firm announced this week.

Ginnie Mae's issuance of mortgage-backed securities exceeded Fannie Mae's issuance in May for the first time since the late 1980s.

Radian Group in Philadelphia has agreed to purchase $389 million of its convertible senior notes.

The deal, called New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2015-1, is the company’s first of the year; it completed three last year.

Mortgage rates dropped as Europeans worrying about a Greek default beefed up investments in American mortgage-backed bonds.

Optimism abounds in Fannie Mae's survey of mortgage lenders for the second quarter of 2015.

FICO discards incomplete and old credit history information for a good reason. The solution to today's credit-access problems is not to use this unreliable data but to turn to alternative data such as the payment of everyday bills.

Barclays is ending trading in $700 billion of U.S. mortgage bonds that were issued before the financial crisis.

Deutsche Bank priced most tranches issued from its $1 billion commercial mortgage securitization wider than the last conduit issued, according to a regulatory filing.

The legal challenge to the government's bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is not necessarily a slam-dunk victory, despite an apparent favorable legal ruling in a similar case, analysts at KBW said.