Mel Watt, the former North Carolina lawmaker, has earned praised for his cautious approach to guiding the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But critics say he is making it even more difficult to craft a system without them.

Single family home rental properties located in Florida, Georgia and Washington State will secure the latest loan Blackstone’s Invitation Homes has up for securitization.

Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch et al are bringing to market a CMBS backed by 76 mortgages that are in turn secured by 91 properties.

A Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights portfolio with approximately $10 billion of unpaid principal balance is now on the market

A case that has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court has justices reconsidering whether second-lien debt should be "stripped" in bankruptcy when the collateral is wholly underwater.

Asset-backed securities that priced in the two weeks ended March 27, 2015.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through March 27, 2015.

Large mortgage servicers continued to shed delinquencies as overall loan performance improved in the fourth quarter, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Friday.

B2R Finance, the single-family landlord that lends to other landlords, has launched the industry’s first multi-borrower securitization.

Lending analytics firm Orchard Platform has cut a deal with alternative small-business lender Kabbage to allow institutions to invest in the latter's relatively new line of consumer loans.

Citigroup is lining up the latest in what is becoming a long list of CMBS conduits with highly levered loans with very little amortization, creating the potential for big problems down the line.