Secondary markets

As investors continue their interest in buying single-family housing units as rentals, it may not always make sense to acquire housing units in certain markets.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to a $260 million large loan commercial mortgage-backed securities deal secured by a Florida mall.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking an enforcement action against four private mortgage insurance companies for allegedly paying kickbacks to lenders for business referrals.

Fannie Mae reported a 9% drop in loan acquisitions in February along with a 21% drop in issuing new commitments to purchase loans.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has signed up for the Mortgage Partnership Finance Xtra program.

Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said the Fed will probably need to press on with asset purchases later into this year or into 2014.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to UBS-BB 2013-C6, a $1.3 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit transaction.

With the April 15 tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, Amy Tierce has a couple of things any self-employed person needs to be aware of.

Only two of the 17 stocks tracked by the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite index survived the investor selloff during Wednesday.

There is one provider of lender-placed insurance products which said the recent Federal Housing Finance Agency notice on the topic did not go far enough.

MBIA Insurance Corp. received a favorable ruling from the New York Appellate Court, First Department, against Bank of America Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans.

In the latest version of the National Real Estate Post, Brian Stevens and Frank Garay explain how a profitable and well run government-sponsored enterprise is not what Congress wants if they want to eliminate them.

Ocwen Financial has completed its purchase of the reverse mortgage lender Liberty Home Equity Solutions from Genworth Financial.

The deal, K-712, has an estimated size of $1.4 billion.

Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Rating Agency have released presale reports on the fifth Sequoia/Redwood Trust jumbo mortgage-backed securitization of the year.

Springleaf is readying another residential mortgage-backed securities deal totaling $835 million, according to a pre-sale report released by Standard & Poor’s April 2.

New seasonally adjusted purchase loan application volume is up 1% for the week ended March 19.

In its 2012 annual report, Fannie Mae noted that most private insurers have lowered their premiums over the past two years for borrowers with high credit scores.

Most mortgage stocks traded at cents on the dollar up or down on Tuesday.

We're hearing the glass in the Florida mortgage investment market is either half empty or half full, depending on where you are and how you look at it.