Secondary markets

MountainView Servicing Group is exclusively managing the sale of two portfolios of servicing on loans with a total unpaid principal balance of $369 million.

Ellington Financial during the fourth quarter of 2012 recognized net income of $24.8 million, or $1.19 per diluted share.

I always have my eye out for booming sectors in the mortgage business, and I think I’ve found one.

Fannie Mae has made plans for a new issue of three-year benchmark notes.

Ocwen Financial is selling off parts of a company it recently purchased and another it expects to buy soon.

House Republicans are looking to make major reforms to the Federal Housing Administration single-family program to reduce losses and return FHA to its original mission.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson unveiled the panel's agenda for the 113th Congress on Tuesday, emphasizing continued oversight of the Dodd-Frank reform law.

One of the hardest-hit states is trying to put together a principal reduction program by purchasing severely delinquent underwater mortgages.

A plan to slash premiums for replacement homeowners insurance has been killed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Steven Kohlhagen—a veteran of fixed-income markets and Washington—has been named a director at Freddie Mac.

We're hearing bulk sales of REO might not be a panacea for unburdening the industry’s huge foreclosed backlog after all.

You first need to know what the problems are with the mortgage application.

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has closed the sale of and arranged acquisition financing for Woodway Square, a multihousing community in Houston.

There has been some speculation that real estate investment trusts could become a target of leveraged buyout activity, but it is unlikely to occur in the near term, in part because the commercial mortgage-backed securities market is still constrained.

American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. ended its first year as a public company with fourth-quarter 2012 earnings of $50.4 million in net income and earnings of $1.40 per share.

Multifamily lending has been the darling of banks and investors for the past few years due partly to easy financing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the housing bust that has forced more families to rent rather than own.

When Charles O. Prince III was chief executive officer of Citigroup from 2003 to 2007, he didn’t know about a surge in mortgage risk that his own investment bankers loaded on to its bank’s books.

Redwood Trust is having a spectacular run. Its shares have returned 83% in the past year and there have been zero defaults among the $4 billion of jumbo loans it packaged and sold as bonds since 2010.

Recent data show the United States residential mortgage default outlook is strong in the context of the global securitized market.

Penny Mac’s stock ended the trading day Friday with the largest percentage gain among those listed in this publication’s Mortgage Industry Equity Composite.