The industry is hopeful the repurchase-loan pilot will be expanded quickly...

The volume of loans with an LTV of 81% or above dropped by 18.5%.

Barbara Cooper-Jones will put her retirement plans on hold for a few months to help ensure a smooth transition for her eventual replacement.

At the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are reformulating their Social Index to make it more attractive to investors while still protecting the privacy of borrowers.

The government-sponsored enterprise said it has identified a significant number of fraudulent appraisals tied to mortgages originated between 2021 and 2023.

The primary MI share in the agency market rose from 50.4% in 2022 to 62.9% in 2023.

If the government-insured mortgage programs don't follow FHFA in shifting to a bi-merge process, then it's not worth making the switch for GSE loans, according to CHLA.

Agency MSR transfers declined by 27.5% in the fourth quarter, to $219.05 billion

The dollar volume of mortgages going to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac declined by 47.3% compared with 2022.

"What Fannie and Freddie and the FHFA should be doing is trying to convince Congress it’s time to get them out of conservatorship," said James Lockhart, the former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.