As the landscape shifts from refinances to purchase mortgages, the FHA program can be a volume generator, FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon told attendees at the annual Mortgage Bankers Association convention.
Cash-strapped nonbank servicers were less likely than banks to help borrowers through pandemic-era mortgage relief, according to a new Federal Reserve report on the CARES Act forbearance program.
The Mortgage Bankers Association suggested FHA reinstate a mortgage lender’s option to document a borrower’s previous work history through a verbal verification of employment, among other recommendations.
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The failure of nonbanks as a sector “could spark another crisis and tear at the fabric of the economy,” said Yu Shan, assistant professor of Finance at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Issuance of new Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities fell 10% in the third quarter. Purchase-money activity climbed at both FHA and VA, but not enough to offset declines in loan mods and cash-out refinances.