With Democrats recapturing control of the House of Representatives this week, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, expected to chair the House Financial Services Committee, the odds of housing-finance reform becoming a reality in 2019 didn’t improve all that much. In short, legislative reform remains a long shot. At least that’s the consensus of industry lobbyists and analysts interviewed this week by Inside Mortgage Trends. “Could Waters get something done?” asked ...
Cash-out refinancing is on the rise again, driven by rising interest rates and strong home-price appreciation, but there is no cause for alarm, according to the Urban Institute. Using Freddie Mac’s quarterly numbers on the refi market, UI found that the share of refi loans where borrowers tapped into their home equity has reached 77 percent of total refis in the second quarter of 2018. That was the market’s highest point since 2008, just as housing valuations began to tank ...
Redwood CEO Chris Abate: “Our game plan in the third quarter was a bit unconventional – we ran an up-tempo offense, squarely in the face of mortgage market headwinds.”
The modest decline in total first-lien mortgage originations during the third quarter affected most sectors of the market, but it hit a little harder at the prime-jumbo space, according to an exclusive new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis. (Includes two data charts.)
Increasingly worried about the liquidity of its largest nonbank issuer/servicers, Ginnie Mae is telling this select group of companies to come up with a plan to address what an agency spokesman characterized as “eventualities.” (Includes one data chart.)
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