The Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of FHA mortgages, among other measures.

Ginnie eyeing permanent emergency credit facility for nonbanks; USDA to hold training sessions on Guaranteed Underwriting System; home equity among seniors hits new record; Ginnie plans temporary business outage; Mortgage Bankers Association rustles support for VA appraisal bill; USDA expands Native American Relending Pilot program.

Debt service coverage ratio loans for investment properties are starting to look more risky as the Fed works to address inflation. Still, activity in the sector is increasing.

Sterling Bank and Trust paid $6 million to settle charges from the OCC regarding a now-shuttered non-QM program. Investigations by the DOJ and SEC are ongoing.

Distressed borrowers with subprime mortgages in states with a judicial foreclosure process achieve non-foreclosure outcomes at a higher rate than similar borrowers in states that don’t have a such a process, according to findings from a new paper.

Moon Mortgage plans to offer loans with underwriting based on crypto holdings. Both purchase mortgages and investment-property loans are planned, with borrowers needing to post 100% of collateral.

Redwood offers some early insight on third quarter performance; Fitch upgrades assessment of Carrington Mortgage; LauraMac launches loan acquisition system; Toorak tops $10 billion in funding since inception in 2016.

It was the steepest decline since COVID, when production plummeted 45.1% in the second quarter of 2020.

The only silver lining: Both saw the asset value of their servicing portfolios rise in the quarter, JPM’s by 7%, Wells 9%.

The bank's originations lean heavily toward jumbos...