Freddie Mac launched a new credit risk-transfer offering late last week that’s structured more like a non-agency mortgage backed security. One analyst said it could prompt more participation from real estate investment trusts. The $300 million offering, the Freddie Mac Whole Loan Security, features a $278 million senior class guaranteed by the GSE and a $23 million subordinate actual-loss security. WLS 2015 SC01 is backed by super-conforming loans originated in the fourth quarter of 2014 and early 2015. The GSE said by shifting some of its credit risk from the underlying mortgages to subordinate investors, the new offering compliments its Structured Agency Credit Risk and Agency Credit Insurance offerings.
Software company Ellie Mae recently teamed up with Fannie Mae to incorporate Fannie’s risk management tools into its system to make it easier for lenders to do business with the GSE. This will help ensure that the loans meet Fannie’s sale eligibility requirements. Although Ellie Mae has its own system, Encompass LOS, the company decided to incorporate Fannie’s risk management tools, like Desktop Underwriter, Collateral Underwriter and Early Check software, into Encompass. The California-based company said it hopes the integration will enhance transparency and avoid any potential last-minute surprises since the system will examine loans beginning from eligibility all the way to loan delivery.
Fannie’s New Headquarters. Fannie Mae will begin occupying its new state-of-the-art headquarters in Washington, DC in 2017, replacing the site of the Washington Post building. Renderings filed with the DC’s Board of Zoning Adjustment illustrate window-filled twin buildings connected by several bridges and notes that it will have about 1.2 million square feet spread out among 12 stories and retail on the bottom. Freddie Mac SVP Receives Award. Christina Boyle, a Freddie senior vice president, was named a 2015 “Power Player” by MReport, honoring women in housing finance. GSE Q2 Earnings Release Date. Freddie Mac announced that it will release its second-quarter 2015 financial results on Tuesday morning, Aug. 4. Freddie Prices Second Q Certificate. Freddie Mac priced its second Q Certificates...
Ginnie Mae said new MBS issuers need to gain some experience in the agency’s program before they are allowed to do servicing transfers, but some newly approved issuers have attempted to do so. Roy Hormuth, director of single-family securitization at Ginnie Mae, said there has been some misconception among new issuers about doing a co-issuance program in their first month in the Ginnie program despite the fact that they are not ready for it. New issuers must first demonstrate that they can successfully manage the servicing themselves before they can transfer servicing immediately, he said. In a co-issuance transaction, a company sells...
A broad sample of 25 publicly traded banks reported strong earnings from their mortgage-banking operations during the second quarter of 2015, a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis reveals. The group, which includes the four megabanks and the major regionals involved in the sector, reported a combined $4.391 billion in mortgage-banking income for the second quarter. That was up 19.6 percent from the first quarter of this year, and it ... [Includes one data chart]
Lenders have slowly loosened underwriting standards since the third quarter of 2013, with the credit expansion largely focused on the agency market, according to a new analysis by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. Actions by the government-sponsored enterprises and the FHA to address buyback risk appear to have helped prompt lenders to loosen underwriting standards on agency loans. The HFPC’s credit availability index tracks ...
Mortgage lenders that sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still focused on delivering single-family mortgages with relatively low credit risk, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of loan-level data from the government-sponsored enterprises. In the second quarter of 2015, 66.4 percent of loans sold to the GSEs had credit scores of 740 or higher. That was up from 64.4 percent in the first quarter and 60.6 percent during ... [Includes one data chart]
The market for “fix-and-flip” properties is starting to look frothy in certain metropolitan areas, but that isn’t stopping California Capital Real Estate Advisors from moving ahead with its plan to raise $100 million from investors. CalCap has carved out a specialty niche over the past five years of funding developers and contractors in California whose goal is to buy mostly distressed properties on the cheap, fix them and sell them quickly. The privately held nonbank ...
The conversation about the “millennial” generation and its effect on the housing and mortgage markets just isn’t going away. Although some mortgage professionals confess to being sick and tired of hearing about the millennials, they can’t argue that, at 82 million strong, those born between 1980 and 1999 are a home-buying force to be reckoned with. But selling loans to them isn’t always so easy. “These new arrivals to the home-buying scene want to text and email ...
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