Secondary markets

Doug Ryan is on a mission to persuade banks and regulators to create more financing options for manufactured homes—but he faces an uphill battle.

Consumers historically have not made decisions in the same way investors do when it comes to mortgages, but that may be changing.

Analysts at Trepp said in a report that commercial mortgage-backed security conduit deals pricing recently have been at levels wider than March pricings.

The broker business is going to be growing over the next two-to-three years.

We're hearing the piquant financial metaphor “the dead cat bounce” recently, describing the remarkable bounce up in home prices all across the America.

Farmer Mac wants more community banks to consider using its services as a way of bringing in more revenue.

In a few years, the commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program could have enough California volume to bundle the bonds for public sale.

Several state attorneys general are calling on President Obama to replace Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency promoted Fred Graham to be deputy director of the Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation.

Customers Bancorp has terminated its agreement to buy Acacia Federal Savings Bank.

Ginnie Mae is seeking input on the potential issues created by it backing two main types of single-family securities.

Certain loan fees that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge to cover default risk appear to count towards a points and fees test lenders cannot exceed in making qualified loans.

Of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks, eight went up, eight declined and one was unchanged.

Carrington Mortgage Services has hired 14 account executives for its wholesale lending division as part of its efforts to expand both product and market reach.

A judge has ruled that Bank of America does not have to defend itself against a lawsuit filed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on behalf of a failed bank.

Freddie Mac said that David Lowman is joining the company effective May 20, as the executive vice president for the single-family business.

Minutes of the last Federal Reserve meeting showed several members said the central bank should begin tapering its bond-buying program later this year and stop it by yearend.

A federal judge has dismissed the majority of $590 million of mortgage-backed securities claims brought by NCUA against Credit Suisse Securities in the 2009 collapses of U.S. Central FCU and WesCorp.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is exclusively brokering a $12.7 billion Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bulk residential mortgage servicing rights offering on new origination, low interest rate loans.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could return billions of dollars in profits to taxpayers who bailed them out in 2008.