Secondary markets

This is the first post-downturn year in which the number of companies that have done rated deals has notably multiplied.

Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act in response to the severe downturn in the housing market.

The Veterans Administration is the only government agency that has not made huge underwriting rule changes for several years now.

A new online wholesale trading platform was launched by SecondaryWire designed to accommodate the sale of brokers’ and correspondents’ loans to investors.

Investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accused the U.S. of depriving them of the value of their preferred shares when it changed the terms of its takeover of the mortgage finance companies in August 2012.

Both the largest loan and another loan have split loan structures where the property also supports a pari passu companion loan.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee wants private investors to share in some of the credit risk on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Federal Housing Administration loans.

Through MPF Xtra, loans are aggregated and sold to Fannie Mae.

W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital executives find deciding whether holding or selling mortgage servicing rights is worthwhile for the company in the long run both tough and rewarding.

Fannie Mae issued $7.6 billion of multifamily mortgage-backed securities in the second quarter from newly originated loans.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has made it a priority to develop a single platform as opposed to upgrading the individual platforms that Fannie and Freddie currently use.

Ginnie Mae is moving closer to merging the Ginnie I mortgage-backed security program into the Ginnie II MBS program.

CIFG Assurance North America agreed to settle lawsuits against Goldman Sachs Group and Capital One Financial’s GreenPoint Mortgage Funding over mortgage-backed securities.

Oregon lawmakers passed an $800 million bonding package to fund construction projects.

A federal judge has rejected Standard & Poor’s bid to dismiss a Justice Department suit claiming it intentionally ignored its own standards rating risky investments sold to WesCorp FCU and Eastern Financial Florida CU.

GreenPoint Mortgage Funding was sued over about $400 million in losses on mortgage-backed securities by investor trustee U.S. Bancorp.

The spike in interest rates last week affected both purchase and refinance application volume, as the total number of loan applications submitted the week ended July 5 declined by 4% on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous week.

The jumbo residential mortgage-backed securitization is collateralized by a $440 million pool of First Republic Bank-originated and serviced loans.

We're hearing from law firm ReedSmith that the upcoming 100-mile Pennsylvania restriction on how far a mortgage originator may live from his or her office raises some questions.

Wells Fargo plans to issue a $1.4 billion conduit transaction called Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-LC12.