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Ginnie Mae has launched a scorecard-based risk management tool that will allow issuers to gauge their operational and default performance against both their peers and Ginnie Mae's program standards, according to an announcement from Ginnie Mae. According to Ginnie Mae President Ted Tozer, ...

Freddie Mac's total mortgage portfolio contracted to start 2015 after ending 2014 with hits highest annualized growth rate for a single month in five years while the serious delinquency rate for the Enterprise's loans fell to a six-year low, according to the Enterprise's January ...

Both the delinquency rate and the foreclosure inventory rate in Q4 2014 for residential mortgage loans fell to their lowest levels since 2007, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's National Delinquency Survey released Wednesday. The delinquency rate fell to a seasonally-adjusted rate of ...

Foreclosure inventory was way down nationwide year-over-year in January despite a 5.5 percent month-over-month increase in foreclosure starts, according to Black Knight Financial Services' First Look at January Mortgage Data. Foreclosure starts totaled nearly 94,000 for January, which was the ...

Ocwen Loan Servicing, a subsidiary of Ocwen Financial Corporation, intends to sell the mortgage servicing rights on a portfolio of performing residential loans owned by Freddie Mac with a total principal balance of about $9.8 billion to Nationstar Mortgage, a subsidiary of Nationstar Mortgage ...

The default risk for mortgage loan originations rose in January, marking the fifth straight month-over-month increase, according to the composite National Mortgage Risk Index released by AEI's International Center on Housing Risk. In January, the NMRI for Agency purchase loans increased ...

Freddie Mac has helped nearly 1.1 million struggling homeowners either retain their homes or otherwise avoid foreclosure through a variety of means since the beginning of 2009, four months after the FHFA conservatorship began, according to the GSE's 2014 Financial ...

Bank of America has begun the process of paying out$ 7 billion in consumer relief as part of its record $16.65 billion  settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and six states last August, according to an announcement on the settlement monitor's website. ...

The nation's first mortgage default index stayed flat in January while the national composite credit default index rose slightly for the sixth straight month, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices for January 2015 released Tuesday. ...

With the nation's homeownership rates similar to those of 50 years ago, the foreclosure rate is significantly higher compared to the early 1960s. The main reason for the increase in foreclosure risk while the homeownership rate remains little changed is ...