It’s Time for Lenders to Consider Loosening Underwriting Guidelines: CoreLogic January 7, 2015 Brandon Ivey Molly Boesel, a senior economist at CoreLogic, said mortgages originated in the past four years are among the most pristine loans made in the past two decades.Read More
CBO Weighs Auction of Fannie/Freddie MBS Guarantees January 7, 2015 Brandon Ivey “Auctions would determine the market prices of those guarantees and allocate them to the lenders who most valued them,” the CBO said.Read More
TRID Projected to Cost Mortgage Industry $527 Million a Year January 7, 2015 Thomas Ressler Elsewhere, Batkins projects compliance with all of the CFPB's 2014 regulations to cost the financial services industry $2.1 billion. Read More
California Still Loves Loan Brokers – A Lot January 6, 2015 John Bancroft Mortgage brokers originated 21.3 percent of Golden State mortgages during the first nine months of the year...Read More
Will Nationstar be the Big Kahuna of MSR Acquisitions? January 6, 2015 Paul Muolo A spokesman for the company told IMFnews that the company does not discuss specific meetings it has with regulators...Read More
Short Takes: Ocwen Clocked Again / New Mortgage Blood? / What’s Next for Sig Anderman? / WaMu Lives, Well Sort Of / Auction.com Sees Possible Shift in CRE January 6, 2015 Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey “There’s a lot of 60- and 70-year old mortgage managers out there.” Read More
Fitch: Progress Slow on Needed Changes for Non-Agency MBS January 6, 2015 Brandon Ivey Potential actions by regulators also give non-agency MBS investors cause for concern. Read More
Ellie Mae Founder Sig Anderman Stepping Down as CEO January 6, 2015 Paul Muolo Anderman took Ellie Mae public in 2011. The company now has a market cap north of $1.1 billion.Read More
Letting the GSEs Rebuild Capital Won’t Happen Anytime Soon, Says MBA Chief January 6, 2015 Paul Muolo MBA's Stevens believes that making a change in the PSPAs would not go over very well in a Republican-controlled House and Senate.Read More
Servicing Market Heats Up Early: A $4.2 Billion MSR Portfolio from MVSG January 5, 2015 Paul Muolo MountainView did not identify the company selling the servicing rights except to say it is a “well capitalized servicer.”Read More