Trade groups representing the mortgage industry wrote to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau late last month to express their opposition to the agency’s proposal to incorporate a short survey into its consumer complaint closing process, which would replace the current “dispute” function. Under the CFPB’s proposal, which was published in the Aug. 1, 2016, Federal Register as a notice and request for comment rather than a formal proposed rule, consumers would have the option to provide feedback on a company’s response to and handling of their complaints via all channels including online, phone, fax and mail. Consumers would be able...
Recent data on the state of the FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund and program financials suggest that the annual audit will show solid improvement in the government’s 2016 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. But there are some huge variables that could have a major impact on the final results that won’t be known until the annual audit is released late next month. The MMIF ended...
Fannie Mae has significantly ramped up its nonperforming loan sales in 2016, while Freddie Mac is running slightly behind the pace it set in 2015. Fannie offered $4.69 billion of NPLs through the first nine months of this year, compared to $2.78 billion for all of 2015. The government-sponsored enterprise announced five more pools totaling $1.39 billion up for sale this week, moving the year-to-date total to $6.08 billion. The latest sale is...
Two FHA lenders in Utah have agreed to pay the federal government a total of $9.25 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act in connection with badly underwritten FHA-insured loans that later resulted in losses to the FHA insurance fund. Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. (PRMI) and SecurityNational Mortgage Co. became the latest statistics in the government’s effort to prosecute lenders whose practices result in losses to the FHA insurance fund. The two lenders have agreed separately to $5.0 million and $4.25 million settlements, respectively, without admitting to any fault or liability for the failed loans. In separate complaints, the Department of Justice accused...
“It is critically important for the GSEs to develop and implement additional CRT structures that are accessible to lenders of all sizes and business models in order to avoid reconcentration of the origination and servicing market,” writes MBA President Dave Stevens.
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