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Reps. John Delaney, D-Md., John Carney, D-Del., and Jim Himes, D-Conn., introduced a new housing bill Thursday designed to provide an explicit government backstop for the market but still increase private sector participation.

Fortress Investment Group hired Adam Siegel, a former trader at Royal Bank of Scotland Group, to expand its mortgage business.

Citigroup may reach an agreement with federal prosecutors as early as next week to resolve a probe into sales of mortgage-backed bonds before the 2008 financial crisis.

Now that buyers and sellers have a sense of what it's like to operate in the new interest rate environment, the two sides are more likely to agree on price.

Redwood Trust is coming back to the market with its second residential mortgage-backed security of 2014, according to a presale report from Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

Cerberus is is financing low-volume deals for small investors through its FirstKey Lending; Blackstone's B2R Finance LP. is making a similar push to mom-and-pop landlords.

Analysts are projecting Ginnie Mae could surpass Freddie Mac in outstanding MBS by next July.

New federal requirements for private mortgage insurers aim to standardize coverage across the market. That’s left some companies looking for ways to distinguish their products as they vie for lenders' business.

Ginnie Mae is paying particular attention to nonbank servicers due to the same concerns an inspector general has raised about servicing transfers involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans.

Freddie Mac bought insurance to cover as much as $285 million of losses on a pool of U.S. home loans, in its third and largest such purchase under a risk-sharing effort encouraged by its regulator.