Angel Oak Mortgage suffered widening losses in the second quarter amid weak demand in the secondary market for non-QMs. Still, officials at the REIT suggest that things are looking up.
Among the top 30 jumbo servicers, portfolios increased during the second quarter. Servicing declined at top-ranked Wells and increased at nearly all others in the top 10. (Includes data chart.)
Altisource Asset Management is acquiring bridge loans and plans to add non-agency debt service coverage ratio mortgages to its mix as it transitions from asset management to an originator of non-agency loans.
Angel Oak settles with SEC on misreporting of delinquencies on fix-and-flip securitization; Sachem increases profits and originations in second quarter; LendSure launches five- to eight-unit DSCR product; rating services add firms to lists of acceptable due diligence providers.
The federal entities appear to have accommodated many of the concerns of small and mid-sized seller/servicers, reducing some requirements and eliminating others.
Despite a tepid improvement in whole-loan prices being paid for non-QM mortgages, yet another non-QM operator has closed its doors: Cypress Mortgage. It was barely four months old.
Ginnie Mae said it supports HUD’s efforts seeking legislation that would provide a permanent source of capital for housing finance agencies fostering affordable multifamily housing.
Performance of student loan ABS declined in the second quarter. And a moratorium on payments for federally backed student loans is set to expire at the end of August.
An appeals court overturned a ruling that ordered UBS to pay more than $2.5 million to a former commercial MBS research analyst. The verdict conflicts with other circuit court decisions and could end up at the Supreme Court.
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