More than two dozen trade groups signed an open letter to the administration and Congress urging them to preserve what works in the current housing-finance system and get more private capital back into the market. “There is a pressing need to ensure that the existing progress is cemented rather than cast aside,” said the groups, which include the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Community Home Lenders Association, the Community Mortgage Lenders of America, Independent Bankers of America and the Credit Union National Association. The groups want to make sure that any effort to change the role the GSEs play doesn’t result in market disruptions that reduce access to credit in the single-family and multifamily space.
Dropping the debt-to-income cap for qualified mortgages is one way to level the playing field between the GSEs and the private market, according to the Urban Institute. With the somewhat controversial GSE patch in qualified mortgages expiring in January 2021, talk has turned to coming up with alternatives for retaining or replacing this special treatment given to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans. The GSE patch allows Fannie and Freddie to purchase loans with debt-to-income ratios exceeding 43 percent as long as they meet other QM rule requirements set forth by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Fannie’s Latest NPL Sale. Fannie Mae announced its latest sale of non-performing loans this week, including the company’s 14th Community Impact Pool. The five larger pools include approximately 10,700 loans totaling $1.95 billion in unpaid principal balance. The Community Impact Pool contains approximately 80 loans totaling $28.7 million in UPB. The Community Impact Pool consists of loans geographically located in New York City. Bids are due on the five larger pools on October 4 and on the Community Impact Pool on October 23. Investors Unite on 10-Year Conservatorship Anniversary. The GSE shareholders group said 10 years later, the GSEs remain wards of the state. “After...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week moved to further cement its existing policies that require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to move in lockstep on matters that affect MBS prepayment speeds as a federal regulation.
In anticipation of the single-security launch in June 2019, Freddie Mac is working on exchange paths to make the transition from two markets to one go much more smoothly.
SG Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm chock full of former Goldman Sachs executives, has launched a new wholesale lender to originate non-qualified mortgages, most of which will wind up in MBS deals.
If Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s new housing finance reform bill becomes law, the common securitization platform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the “disclosure framework from Common Securitization Solutions” will be transferred into a private, nonprofit corporation or “exchange.”
With nonbanks dominating Ginnie Mae’s single-family MBS program, liquidity is an important factor in the issuance and servicing of Ginnie MBS and has been the agency’s focus in recent years.
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