Form: S-3

Registration statement for specified transactions by certain issuers

December 17, 2004

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

     We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in the Registration Statement and related Prospectus of MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. for the registration of 9,447,109 shares of its common stock and to the incorporation by reference therein of our report dated February 4, 2004, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

New York, New York
December 15, 2004