The Department of Housing and Urban Development is seeking public comment as well as approval from the Office of Management and Budget for a number of new or expired data collections relating to key FHA programs and issues. Out for a 30-day comment period are proposed data collections relating to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program, condominium project approval, claims and conveyance, and property inspection and preservation. Specifically, HUD has asked OMB to reinstate currently approved information collection, which is necessary to screen HECM applications to protect the FHA insurance fund, consumers and taxpayers. HUD also wants OMB approval to extend the forms used to determine the eligibility of borrowers and mortgage transactions for FHA insurance. In addition, HUD’s HECM counseling form was revised to include a property address line for purchase transactions and ...
VA Announces VALERI Offline Dates. Due to a legacy loan purge, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VA Loan Electronic Reporting Interface (VALERI) will be unavailable for loading servicing data. VALERI will be offline on the following dates; Aug. 4, 8 p.m. to Aug. 5, 11:59 p.m.; Aug. 11, 8 p.m. to Aug. 13, 12 noon; Aug. 18, 8 p.m. to Aug. 19, 11:59 p.m.; and Sept. 22, 8 p.m. to Sept. 23, 11:59 p.m. All times are EST. Senate Banking Panel Advances HUD Nominees. The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs has sent HUD nominations for consideration by the full Senate. On July 27, the committee approved by voice vote the nominations of J, Paul Compton Jr. and Anna Farias for HUD general counsel and assistant secretary for fair housing, respectively. Beal Rackleff’s nomination for HUD assistant secretary for community planning and development also was approved by voice vote ...
BofA CEO Brian Moynihan: “Now, the answer is, we just retain the mortgages and frankly the credit quality on ours is not worth paying the insurance [associated with selling loans into MBS].”
Not counting the new investment from Gatehouse, CALPCAP has raised $225 million from investors since its inception 10 years ago. Company principal Mark Mozilo told IMFnews the firm is continuing to hire as it builds out a national lending platform.
“The research will inform the CFPB and assist it in developing recommendations to streamline and improve the rules governing the mortgage industry and, more specifically, the ATR/QM rule,” said the CMC.
The secondary market in mortgage servicing rights heated up during the second quarter of 2017, fueling further growth by nonbanks in the servicing business. An estimated $133.36 billion of MSR changed hands during the second quarter, according to an analysis by Inside Mortgage Trends, an affiliated newsletter. That was up 21.5 percent from the first three months of the year, and brought total MSR transfers to $243.14 billion at the midway point of 2017, up 53.6 percent from a year ago. Most of the activity has been...[Includes three data tables]
RSS