Homebridge Financial’s wholesale division and theLender both announced suspensions to their non-QM lending operations. Others will follow, rest assured...
Consultant Paul Hindman, who heads Grid Financial, said he knows of one lender who recently sent 1,000 workers home “with new equipment.” He did not identify the shop by name.
Federal forbearance on government backed mortgages is a panacea to deal with the economic fall-out caused by the novel coronavirus. But eventually there will be implications in the primary and secondary markets.
It was mortgage market Armageddon this week, courtesy of the corona-virus. Lenders were knee-deep in refis but fears mounted regarding an expected spike in delinquencies and about nonbank liquidity. The feds issued a foreclosure moratorium on government and GSE loans.
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