February 2, 2012
President Obama this week called on Congress to enact legislation to refinance non-agency borrowers through the FHA, to be paid for by...
February 2, 2012
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray this week confirmed to members of Congress that the agency’s top...
February 2, 2012
The six federal agencies that have to respond to massive protests over a proposed qualified residential mortgage definition have offered...
January 27, 2012
Despite the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s release of a long awaited study justifying its position against the writedown of underwater...... from Inside The GSEs
January 20, 2012
MetLife Home Loans (MHL), one of the top FHA-approved mortgage lenders and FHA servicers, has quit the loan origination business and stopped...... from Inside FHA Lending
January 6, 2012
The securitization market produced $1.182 trillion of new residential MBS in 2011, a sharp 16.6 percent decline from the year before,...... from Inside MBS & ABS
December 16, 2011
Servicing and delinquency issues in recent years have prompted three of the four major bank portfolio lenders to decrease their focus on...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 3, 2012
Both the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Freddie Mac are refuting a published report suggesting that a mortgage finance vehicle at one...
February 3, 2012
MBS trustees are facing challenges on a number of fronts, according to panelists at the American Securitization Forum’s ASF 2012...
February 3, 2012
Federal and state enforcement agencies late last week launched a broad new initiative to investigate and develop litigation on fraud and...
January 13, 2012
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued $261.59 billion in single-family mortgage-backed securities during the fourth quarter of 2011, a booming...... from Inside The GSEs
January 12, 2012
It started last week with an unsolicited white paper outlining “a framework for thinking about certain issues and tradeoffs that...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
December 16, 2011
Ginnie Mae may have reported potentially inaccurate data to Congress about its exposures because estimates were not based on the best...... from Inside FHA Lending
September 16, 2011
Mortgage lenders and servicers with large portfolios of seriously delinquent home loans have turned to “liquidating trust”...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
January 27, 2012
Expect the run up to the fall elections to curb any meaningful results in terms of a legislative overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
January 27, 2012
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is in the midst of crafting an “unusual” plan to supplement the Bank’s current...
January 27, 2012
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati last week announced a changing of the guard among top management as the Bank’s president and...
February 3, 2012
Investors have expressed a keen interest in programs that would facilitate bulk sales of real estate-owned properties. However, few are...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 3, 2012
Freddie Mac saw a substantial increase in its single-family MBS program from December to January, but overall agency MBS production declined...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 2, 2012
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be brought “on budget” by adding the two government-sponsored enterprises’ outstanding...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
January 27, 2012
If there was any question about what was driving the housing market in 2011, some year-end housing numbers have provided two clear answers:...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
January 23, 2012
The newly empowered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is wasting no time jumping into its oversight of mortgage origination practices...
January 23, 2012
The Supreme Court of the United States plans to hear oral arguments late next month in Freeman v. Quicken Loans, a case that could have...
January 23, 2012
Regulatory burden will be the biggest issue for mortgage originators in 2012, according to recruiting firm Hammerhouse’s second annual...
February 3, 2012
While a major regulatory concern of the past few years – the risk-retention rule – has yet to be resolved, the industry is squaring...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 3, 2012
With the recent issuance of streamlined regulations on lender indemnification, mortgagees participating in the FHA Lender Insurance program...... from Inside FHA Lending
February 2, 2012
A group of six real estate finance trade organizations has called upon the Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold off on...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
January 27, 2012
California Democrats, including many in the state’s congressional delegation, would like the current head of the Federal Housing Finance...... from Inside The GSEs
January 27, 2012
Securitization experts are expecting a rerun of last year in 2012, as the U.S. economy slowly rights itself and most segments of the...
January 27, 2012
If there was any question about what was driving the housing market in 2011, some year-end housing numbers have provided two clear answers:...
January 27, 2012
In what may be a harbinger for other nonbank mortgage lenders fighting to make their way in a tough and competitive market, Primary...
January 27, 2012
No matter which political party controls the House during next year’s 113th Congress, there will be a new House Financial Services...... from Inside The GSEs
January 23, 2012
Regulatory burden will be the biggest issue for mortgage originators in 2012, according to recruiting firm Hammerhouse’s second annual...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
December 16, 2011
While Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco has been steadfast in his refusal to consider principal reductions for...... from Inside MBS & ABS
November 18, 2011
A number of real estate investment trusts – besides Redwood Trust – are hoping to issue non-agency mortgage-backed securities in the...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 3, 2012
The mortgage industry is skeptical about President Obama’s proposal for low-cost, non-agency loan refinancing program, administered by...
February 3, 2012
With the recent issuance of streamlined regulations on lender indemnification, mortgagees participating in the FHA Lender Insurance program...
February 3, 2012
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a new regulation prohibiting lenders from using sexual orientation or gender...
November 23, 2011
Residential mortgage securitization rates declined in the third quarter of 2011, but surging volume in the primary market will push new MBS...... from Inside MBS & ABS
September 29, 2011
Former executives of mortgage companies that failed to indemnify the Department of Housing and Urban Development on FHA losses are back in...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 9, 2011
The Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced they had filed a civil mortgage fraud...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
February 3, 2012
Issuance of new non-agency mortgage-backed securities will resume when the financing structure is economical, according to attendees at the...
February 3, 2012
Redwood Trust’s four non-agency mortgage-backed securities – the latest of which was issued last week – have been generally...
February 3, 2012
Firms participating in the Public-Private Investment Program with a focus on non-agency mortgage-backed securities all took losses in the...
September 29, 2011
Redwood Trust issued its second non-agency MBS of the year this week with just one rating, a sign of dramatic change in the role of credit...... from Inside MBS & ABS
July 15, 2011
Raising the annual mortgage premium by 25 basis points has resulted in some reduction in FHA lending but not so dramatic as to send lenders...... from Inside FHA Lending
May 19, 2011
Weekly mortgage rates and application survey data as well as indexes for ARMs.... from Inside Mortgage Finance
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