The GSE "common securitization platform" is under construction and already potential add-ons are being discussed, including a loan acquisition module.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency plans to survey residential borrowers about how they were treated by lenders.

The mortgage industry wants lower Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/FHA loan limits. But will it happen?

The game is on: MBA wants a single GSE security and will lobby aggressively on the issue.

It's official: Come January of next year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will only be able to purchase qualified mortgages.

A new investment banking firm wants to help nonbanks raise capital.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae pumped out a respectable $152.3 billion in new single-family MBS in April, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS market analysis and ranking. April’s issuance level was up 2.6 percent from March and reversed, at least temporarily, a two-month downturn in new production. The cyclical peak for the agency MBS market came back in November 2012, when a whopping $199.4 billion in new securities were issued. Although the market couldn’t sustain...[Includes one data chart]

Fannie Mae is discouraging some of its newly minted seller/servicers from issuing MBS through swap transactions and is instead pushing them toward its “cash window,” according to lenders and advisors familiar with the issue. “Fannie has increased its due diligence on lenders to ensure they are meeting, or are able to meet, the terms and conditions of an MBS issuance,” said Tim Rood, managing partner in The Collingwood Group, a Washington-based advisory firm. Rood, a former Fannie executive, told...

Redwood hits an earnings home run in the first quarter. Widening spreads a concern? Hardly.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized a total of $27 billion of mortgages with LTV ratios north of 105 percent, most of which did not have insurance.