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Moody’s Investor Service is considering changing the way it rates covered bonds to take into account the additional support they would receive in the event of a bank failure.

PennyMac’s first jumbo mortgage-backed securities deal in its planned form does not have a master servicer, unlike previous deals in the space.

A study of the investment portfolio of 34 life insurance groups by Fitch Ratings found they have made a modest allocation shift into less liquid assets, including commercial mortgage loans.

It was not the best day for most stocks in this publication’s Mortgage Industry Equity Composite.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs priced an offering of $989.54 million of commercial mortgage-backed securities.

PennyMac is putting its first jumbo mortgage-backed securities deal in the pipeline, a deal roughly $550 million in size.

The Federal Reserve decision not to taper its bond purchases at this time will be good for mortgage volume in the short term.

Carrington Property Network has accelerated its expansion by adding 15 of the top producing residential real estate brokerage firms to its exclusive group over the last three months.

Institutional investors who have been acquiring single-family properties and converting them into rental units have been flocking to many of the same cities, but there are still markets where the competition for these types of assets remains low.

The country's largest trade group is challenging possible plans by the Federal Housing Finance Agency to arbitrarily lower the conforming loan limit in an attempt to bring private capital back to the mortgage market.