May 17, 2012
While many of the largest mortgage lenders in the industry continue to scale back their operations in a somewhat precarious operating...
May 17, 2012
Mortgage servicers reported significant improvement in loan delinquency rates during the first quarter of 2012, although the inventory of...
May 17, 2012
Mortgage lending industry representatives are apprehensive about how the underlying economics of originating a mortgage are going to be...
May 18, 2012
The White House is backing a trio of Senate bills filed last week to expand the Home Affordable Refinance Program to an even wider circle of...... from Inside The GSEs
May 11, 2012
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General will begin internal audits later in 2012 on various...... from Inside FHA Lending
April 30, 2012
An ad hoc coalition of mortgage lender trade group representatives rattled off a host of concerns it has with the draft proposals from the...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
April 6, 2012
If mortgage lending profitability was directly correlated to an ability to respond satisfactorily to borrower complaints, a lot of mortgage...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
May 18, 2012
Banks and thrifts added some $67.2 billion in residential MBS to their investment portfolios during the first quarter of 2012, according to...
May 18, 2012
Ally Financial negotiated an $8.7 billion settlement with investors in non-agency MBS issued by Residential Capital before putting the...
May 18, 2012
A proposal from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to begin disseminating data for agency MBS traded as specified pools could...
May 18, 2012
Look for the Federal Housing Finance Agency to press its multiple legal actions against many of the nation’s biggest issuers of...... from Inside The GSEs
May 11, 2012
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans remain widely available, thanks to the independent lenders that rallied to plug the gaps as major...... from Inside FHA Lending
March 30, 2012
Prudential Financial this week issued a $1.0 billion bond to sell vintage subprime mortgage-backed securities. Analysts described the bond as...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 21, 2012
In response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has banned a number of defendants from providing mortgage...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
May 18, 2012
The two GSEs divulged not so wildly divergent earnings during the first quarter of 2012. Fannie Mae posted its first free-and-clear profit...
May 18, 2012
The “scalability” of the nation’s 12 Federal Home Loan Banks as well as their demonstrated ability to access global markets...
May 18, 2012
Freddie Mac’s new chief executive is expected to have his work cut out for him when he takes possession of the company’s corner...
May 18, 2012
Converting real estate owned properties to rental units is still in its infancy but it could be a compelling asset type for investors. If...... from Inside MBS & ABS
May 18, 2012
Two separate working papers by Federal Reserve economists conclude that the two government-sponsored enterprises were not significantly...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
May 17, 2012
A decline in Fannie Mae’s inventory of single-family real estate owned homes coupled with improved REO sale prices played a significant...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 11, 2012
“The private market will never come back if the best deal for the private investor is the government,” Lewis Ranieri, chairman and...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
May 14, 2012
Mortgage originator compensation has moved clearly into the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of a broader...
May 14, 2012
Three mortgage lending industry groups have challenged the position of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a key Truth in Lending...
May 14, 2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sided with borrowers in an appeals case being brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices...
May 18, 2012
The “scalability” of the nation’s 12 Federal Home Loan Banks as well as their demonstrated ability to access global markets...... from Inside The GSEs
May 18, 2012
Seven months after launching as a new wholesale and retail mortgage firm with national ambitions, Bexil American Mortgage originated its first...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
May 18, 2012
A proposal from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to begin disseminating data for agency MBS traded as specified pools could...... from Inside MBS & ABS
May 17, 2012
Mortgage lending industry representatives are apprehensive about how the underlying economics of originating a mortgage are going to be...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 18, 2012
Mortgage buybacks may have declined significantly during the first quarter of 2012, but a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis shows that...
May 18, 2012
The sharp pullback by wholesale lenders from the correspondent market has forced many originators to reconsider keeping mortgage servicing...
May 18, 2012
With banks under increased pressure to manage their exposure to risks related to mortgage-backed securities and whole loans, Moody’s...
May 18, 2012
Freddie Mac’s new chief executive is expected to have his work cut out for him when he takes possession of the company’s corner...... from Inside The GSEs
May 11, 2012
Two Harbors Investment started acquiring residential properties to offer for rent during the first quarter of 2012, with officials at the real...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
April 27, 2012
Combined servicing volume for the top 50 Ginnie Mae MBS servicers jumped to $1.23 billion in the first quarter of 2012 from $1.11 billion...... from Inside FHA Lending
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
May 11, 2012
Mortgage servicers could find themselves in a quandary as they implement the national servicing standards outlined in the March foreclosure...
May 11, 2012
FHA lenders are anticipating a spike in volume when changes to the FHA Streamline Refinance Program become effective next month. The...
May 11, 2012
The FHA and the reverse mortgage industry are working on guidelines that would help lenders in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program...
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
May 11, 2012
“The private market will never come back if the best deal for the private investor is the government,” Lewis Ranieri, chairman...
May 11, 2012
After a tough economic environment had officials at Redwood Trust considering whole loan sales in lieu of non-agency securitization, the...
May 11, 2012
Ocwen Financial has been a leader in principal-reduction loan modifications and officials at the company suggest the mods give Ocwen a...
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
April 22, 2011
With the flow of new jumbo mortgage securitizations still running at a trickle, the non-agency MBS market remains dominated by...... from Inside MBS & ABS
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