Tuesday, March 12: Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-SD, plans to hold a hearing on the renomination of Richard Cordray to head up the CFPB. Inside the CFPB will send out a news alert later that day featuring our first quick take on the hearing, to be followed throughout the rest of the week with postings on our social media feeds. Complete coverage will follow in our next issue. Wednesday, March 13: The House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee has scheduled a...
H.R. 450: The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Accountability Act, introduced by Rep. Bill Posey, R-FL, would amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to bring the CFPB into the regular appropriations process. The bill is a re-introduction of H.R. 1640 from the 112th Congress. Current status: referred to House Financial Services Committee. S. 190: The Restoring the Constitutional Balance of Power Act of 2013, introduced by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-NE, would prohibit the transfer of funds from the Federal Reserve that would be used by the CFPB “to carry out activities that are authorized...
FHA funding accounted for 25 percent of home-purchase financing in January, based on the three-month moving average, according to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey. February numbers will be released shortly.
Nationstar appears to be the winning bidder on the Taylor Bean & Whitaker MSR pacakge. Meanwhile: Ed DeMarco, the most powerful man in mortgage finance today?
Originations of non-agency jumbo mortgages increased by 19.4 percent in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to affiliated publication Inside Mortgage Finance. The sector is expected to continue to grow as jumbos are increasingly attractive for bank portfolios and securitization. An estimated $203.0 billion in non-agency jumbo mortgages were originated in 2012, marking the third straight year of increased production. The sector is driven by big banks ... [Includes one data chart]
Five years after the subprime mortgage industry imploded, there are signs of a revival as new players are entering the nonprime space. What’s developing is “old style” home-equity lending, where loan-to-value ratios are rarely larger than 75 percent and the actual funder of the loan keeps the paper in portfolio and services it. In the past two weeks, two subprime residential firms opened their doors for business: Citadel Loan Servicing and Deephaven Mortgage. Deephaven is the brainchild of ...
Credit Suisse issued a $422.2 million non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security last week with some of the loans in the private placement sourced from Two Harbors Investment. Two Harbors – a real estate investment trust that has been working to issue its own non-agency MBS for more than a year – is also expected to be the initial investor in the subordinate tranche of the MBS. CSMC Trust 2013-TH1 received AAA ratings from DBRS, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s, with 7.05 percent credit enhancement ...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will make a number of efforts to increase the market share for the non-agency market in 2013, according to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In a speech this week, he said guaranty fees on agency mortgages will continue to increase, the government-sponsored enterprises will complete significant risk-sharing transactions, and they will continue to work on a securitization platform and contractual frameworks that could be used for ...
Conforming loan limits should be lowered to help draw private capital into the mortgage market, according to recommendations from a bipartisan think tank led by former policymakers. The Bipartisan Policy Center recommended phasing out the government-sponsored enterprises and replacing them with a new “Public Guarantor” that would shift mortgage finance risk to the private sector. “A gradual reduction of the loan limits for government-guaranteed mortgages would help to rebalance the ...
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