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Byline: Bonnie Sinnock The lenders Quicken Loans, Citizens Bank and Better Mortgage are refinancing loans using Airbnb income as part of a pilot project with Fannie Mae. This marks the [...]

The mortgage meltdown continues to negatively impact every element of the industry, as well as the economy. It's no surprise that some of the bad apples who caused this mess [...]

Fannie Mae CEO Michael J. Williams discusses the role of Fannie Mae in the market and the lessons that were learned from the housing crisis to strengthen the mortgage and housing markets. Williams says there is a need increase sustainability, affordability, stability, and transparency in the housing market.

Byline: Elina Tarkazikis Conforming loan limits for mortgages bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will increase for the second consecutive year in response to the rapid rise in home [...]

National Credit-reporting System (NCS) is now an authorized report supplier of 4506-T tax return verification (TRV Services) through the Desktop Underwriter (DU) validation service, a component of Fannie Mae's Day [...]

Fiserv reported that LoanComplete from Fiserv has been verified for Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) delivery to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Loan Closing Advisor ahead of the government-sponsored enterprises' (GSE) [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein A new refinance mortgage offered by Social Finance, better known as SoFi, lets consumers tap into their home equity to pay down student loan debt at terms [...]

Byline: Joseph Kellard Fannie Mae has unveiled a mortgage for borrowers who want to finance energy and water efficiency improvements to their homes. The HomeStyle Energy mortgage, announced Wednesday, allows [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2015 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA) said it has integrated Collateral Underwriter (CU) with the industry leading Desktop Underwriter (DU) automated underwriting system and EarlyCheck, the company's [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Receiving Wide Coverage ... The Russian Hacker Mob: Russian-speaking gangs of hackers have stolen millions of dollars since 2013 from banks in the U.S., Eastern Europe and [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Fannie Mae recently announced several product innovations that it said will deliver even lower pricing and more loan dollars to multi-housing borrowers. The product enhancements range from [...]

Byline: Brian Collins WASHINGTON - Small lenders are hoping a new representation and warranty framework by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will offer them alternatives to loan repurchases. The two [...]

Byline: Randy Munday Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are targeting poorly supported appraisals more than ever. This is a distinction with a difference. They are prepared, given the information available [...]

Byline: Brian Collins WASHINGTON -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking public comment on the best way to set guarantee fees for loans bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]

America's huge mortgage-market distortions seem likely to endure YOU could argue that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two 'government-sponsored enterprises' (GSEs) in the mortgage business which received the biggest bail-out [...]

Byline: Kate Berry, Amilda Dymi Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should stop charging mortgage servicers 'unfair fees' for foreclosure delays, the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. 'Servicers [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Three of the four largest mortgage servicers failed to meet Fannie Mae's minimum servicing requirements in the first half of 2013, according to a Fannie report released [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Even as policymakers plot the demise of the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae is trying harder than ever to win business from small and mid-sized banks. Over the [...]

Byline: Brian Browdie Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are helping to provide additional relief to Hurricane Sandy victims who received a temporary reprieve from paying their mortgage after the storm [...]

Byline: Paul Muolo, Jeff Horwitz The Federal Housing Finance Agency is preparing to back away from a controversial plan to overhaul the minimum servicing fees paid on Fannie Mae and [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry Fannie Mae is giving the mortgage servicing industry's handling of troubled government-backed loans a makeover. But it would rather do so in private. The government-sponsored [...]

Byline: Donna Borak WASHINGTON - The Federal Housing Finance Agency is still falling short when it comes to keeping a watchful eye on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In two [...]

Byline: Brian Collins Fannie Mae, in a quarterly filing, says it is receiving 'higher amounts' from lenders on loan repurchase requests while its pipeline of buyback claims on defaulted mortgages [...]

Byline: Sara Lepro Fannie Mae has expanded incentives offered through its HomePath program to encourage sales of real estate owned properties. The government-sponsored enterprise said Tuesday that it will once [...]

Byline: Stuart M. Saft For decades Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac provided an important service to the American economy by providing financing for Americans to buy and refinance their homes [...]

Byline: Sara Lepro Fannie Mae is retiring one of its mortgage-workout options, underscoring the growing emphasis on loan modifications through a government program and reflecting how much more dire homeowners' [...]

Byline: Allison Bisbey Colter No one knows what housing market reform - especially the reshaping of the government-sponsored enterprises - will look like, but Wall Street certainly is paying close [...]

Byline: Sara Lepro Fannie Mae is retiring one of its mortgage-workout options, underscoring the growing emphasis on loan modifications through a government program and reflecting how much more dire homeowners' [...]

Byline: Kate Berry In its efforts to support the housing market's tenuous recovery, Fannie Mae took on slightly more risk with the new loans it bought or guaranteed in the [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Fannie Mae has decided that certain distressed borrowers who agree to give up their homes as an alternative to foreclosure should get a second chance at homeownership [...]

Washington-By going outside the box, Fannie Mae is modifying more loans than Freddie Mac and achieving larger reductions in borrowers' monthly payments. Fannie made an effort to move borrowers who [...]

On Oct. 7, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced they have released a new uniform policy framework to provide added clarity and alternative remedies to requiring lenders to buy back [...]

Republican senators expressed concern Tuesday about a deal cut among Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that would establish appraisal standards for any lender selling [...]

Fannie Mae said Tuesday that for the rest of the year it will buy so-called jumbo conforming mortgages to put in its portfolio for about the same prices as regular [...]

About 3,200 volunteers with paint brushes and shovels spent Saturday beautifying 39 Washington, D.C., public school buildings. The projects, sponsored by Fannie Mae and Greater D.C. Cares, included painting offices, […]

Some of the new appraisal standards that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac agreed to adopt under their deal with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo would be harmful and impractical, [...]

Fannie Mae plans to announce changes to its underwriting guidelines at the end of the month that will create disincentives for borrowers to walk away from properties. Marianne Sullivan, the [...]

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight issued guidance Monday that outlines standards agency examiners apply when overseeing and evaluating the use of the fair-value option already adopted by Fannie [...]

Fannie Mae plans to roll out a new program in the next few months to encourage short sales of delinquent borrowers' homes, a move that shows mortgage investors may be [...]