Capital markets

Diamond Resorts is preparing its first offering of bonds backed by timeshare loans in nearly a year, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Freddie Mac's net income rose to $2.3 billion in the third quarter, a big turnaround from the same point last year, when it lost $475 million due to derivative hedging instruments.

Commercial mortgage originations increased 5% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, driven by a huge increase in government-sponsored enterprise volume.

A third securitization of single-family rental properties by Colony American Finance is also the smallest to date for the REIT-affiliated lender.

The mortgage industry is welcoming the Obama administration's possibly final word on housing finance reform, hoping it will serve as guidepost for the future.

Banc of California in Irvine has sold about $163 million of single-family residential mortgages to an unnamed buyer.

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to achieve their low-income and very low-income single-family home purchase goals for 2015, the Federal Housing Finance Agency annual housing report said.

A market that some Ginnie Mae issuers tap to help finance their mortgage operations has a dwindling number of investors.

Barclays is trying to draw a line at $2 billion in penalties to settle a U.S. investigation into its sale of mortgage securities after it received an opening offer that it considered too high.

Mortgage rates slipped from last week's spike and the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage eased back to its summertime range below 3.5%, according to Freddie Mac.