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As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to experiment with up-front risk sharing deals, some small mortgage lenders are worried they will be left out of the action.

Mortgage rates and Treasury yields moved higher this week in anticipation of the Federal Open Markets Committee raising short-term interest rates in December.

Tricon American Homes is prepping its second securitization of single-family rental homes, according to ratings agency reports.

Fannie Mae said that it will sell 7,300 loans with a total of $1.39 billion in unpaid principal balance.

Fannie Mae plans to sell a pool of 3,600 loans with $806 million in unpaid principal balance.

Companies in the path of the storm have battened down the hatches, as others have prepared for the impact the hurricane could have on home sales and loan servicing in the weeks to come.

Consumers were less inclined to buy a home in September, thanks to concerns about interest rates, home prices and the political environment.

A former top regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants to abandon the development of the common securitization platform and use the existing Ginnie Mae platform to issue government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities.

Conforming mortgage rates were unchanged this week even as the 10-year Treasury's yield rose in response to the European Central Bank's decision to slow its bond purchase program, according to Freddie Mac.

More than $200 billion of the most poorly underwritten commercial mortgages originated before the financial crisis come due this year and next, many of them still underwater.