The five servicers participating in the $25 billion national servicing settlement will face increased scrutiny due to complaints regarding their compliance with the settlement. In addition to requiring a certain amount of loss mitigation actions on non-agency loans, the settlement set standards to be followed by the servicers. Joseph Smith, the settlement’s monitor, said he is establishing additional metrics for the settlement to address complaints about actions by Ally Financial, Bank of America ...
California Capital Real Estate Advisers of Pasadena, CA, could quadruple its hard-money production volume this year, according to Mark Mozilo, a principal in the firm. “The rehab business is going crazy here,” Mozilo said. He estimated that 80 percent of CALCAP’s business is in the rehabilitation category. “There’s a lot of fix-it-up and flip it activity,” he said. Although the “quadruple” estimate sounds impressive, the firm’s overall production volume is tiny compared to conventional lenders ...
Bank of America agreed this week to pay $500 million to settle lawsuits from investors in non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued by Countrywide Financial in 2005 through 2007. If it receives judicial approval, the settlement on about $15.0 billion in non-agency MBS will be the largest-ever non-agency MBS class-action recovery. “After five years of hard-fought litigation, this record-breaking recovery is a tremendous result for MBS investors misled by Countrywide and ...
Non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities issued by Redwood Trust in 2010 and 2011 have been subject to scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months. The SEC looked into Regulation AB compliance issues on the deals, largely seeking increased disclosures. The SEC’s inquiries generally related to deal participants other than Redwood. And in some cases, the SEC sought disclosures related to actions beyond the firms’ participation in non-agency MBS issuance ...
It stands to reason that with non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security issuance reviving to some degree, prices paid in the secondary market for jumbo whole loans are rising. Traders and jumbo consultants who play in the sector tell Inside Nonconforming Markets that prices for quality product are now above par, at 103. As recently as last fall, prices were in the 101 and 102 range, depending on the lender and the underlying collateral. “The market for whole loans is alive and well for ...
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hasn’t marked up a bill in more than a year, but Democrats and Republicans on the panel pushed this week to begin the process of reforming the government-sponsored enterprises. “I think the time is right to address this issue and move it forward,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-MT, said this week at a hearing by the committee. “I think there are folks on both sides of the aisle that want to quit playing with this like a political football and ...
“Private capital out there, here we come,” Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said this week. He was talking about pending risk-sharing pilot transactions between the government-sponsored enterprises and the non-agency market. The FHFA set a goal for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to each issue at least $30.0 billion in risk-sharing transactions this year. Those efforts were delayed in 2012 due to regulatory concerns, but DeMarco said the GSEs will soon issue such deals ...
Issuance of non-agency MBS quadrupled in the first quarter, according to new figures compiled by Inside MBS & ABS. Firms selling securities include Ocwen and Nationstar.
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