The vast majority of default servicing professionals are investing in "significant" REO property improvements to increase resale values in a hot housing market.

The measure assigns the CFPB the task of developing ability-to-pay standards for financing repaid through local tax assessments; it has the support of both the PACE industry as well as mortgage bankers and Realtors.

Fed researchers purported to show that consumers who use peer-to-peer loans have bad financial outcomes, but questions quickly emerged about the data they used.

CBAM Asset Management's $1B CBAM 2017-4 is not its largest deal among the four BSL portfolios it has issued in less than eight months; but the latest transaction is still almost double the average peer CLO deal size of $511 million since the third quarter.

The jump is from a very low base; absolutely delinquency rates on mortgages referenced in GSE credit risk transfer deals are still likely to remain under 1% and much of the effect is likely to be temporary.

The San Francisco company said Friday that it has terminated Franklin Codel, effective immediately, over an interaction he had with a former employee regarding that employee's termination.

The FHFA is allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest in the credits for the first time since they entered conservatorship. Its purpose is to promote affordable housing in underserved markets.

The properties have a total of 1,228 rooms, or "keys" located across four major U.S. cities: San Francisco (346 keys; 39.4% of allocated loan amount), Chicago (429 keys; 26.4%), Boston (178 keys; 18.2%) and Philadelphia (275 keys; 16%).

The two prospective pools of loans have nearly identical average FICO scores (769 for the $1 billion pool, 770 for the $1.25 billion) and weight average APR (2.13% and 2.11%, respectively).

A company official says Ygrene's $280.4 million GoodGreen 2017-2 was more than two times oversubscribed with a lowest-ever coupon for a property assessed clean energy deal.

That’s an about-face from the bank’s previous transaction, completed in October, which was backed by fixed-rate mortgages, nearly half of which were underwritten to standards for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

The resignation of CFPB Director Richard Cordray gives President Trump the chance to name a director who could roll back agency rules and supervisory policies.