A Florida-based investor is touting the profits available from commercial MBS with distressed malls. The trade runs counter to the “mall shorts” that helped generate massive returns for some investors last year.
Lenders are increasingly using evaluations to determine home values rather than completing full appraisals. The evaluations carry risks for both lenders and borrowers, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office.
The market isn’t viewing publicly traded mortgage lenders favorably these days and that’s a problem for the one remaining IPO/SPAC candidate: Better.com.
Two nonbanks are trading accusations tied to the pilfering of staff, at least that’s how it started. Eventually, the case could be settled out of court but not before some damaging allegations get aired in public.