Secondary markets

An analysis of previously released S&P data suggests the Federal Housing Finance Agency's initiative would have mixed impacts on the price of loans and eligibility that vary by individual.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development affiliate is making it easier to repackage securities backed exclusively by these mortgages.

Numbers the Federal Housing Finance Agency just reported for 2022 were the third lowest since the program began, and this year's probably won't be high either.

The shape it takes could have implications for how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac price loans for nonbanks and depositories.

Should the Federal Reserve step back into the market and restart their loan purchase activity?

The share of companies experimenting with artificial intelligence has increased, but full deployment is another matter, a Fannie Mae survey found.

The transaction was scheduled to be completed in the first half of this year, and a "substantial first close" was already announced in February.

Lenders could gain efficiencies from advances in artificial intelligence as the related development of alternative data potentially opens up the market to more borrowers, but hurdles exist.

Credit ratings were cut on the highest number of commercial mortgage-backed securities in "recent memory" last week, according to strategists at Bank of America Corp.

More than one securitization per month resulting from multiple disbursements of a single loan will be permitted beginning Oct. 1, the guarantor said.