loanDepot’s initial public offering of stock – $100 million is the target capital raise – is viewed as a bullish sign for the mortgage industry, especially nonbanks, but don’t expect a long line of imitators, at least not yet. Advisor Joe Garrett, who runs Garrett, McAuley & Co., isn’t quite sure what to make of the recent IPO news, stating bluntly: “I’m sure it will get a lot of ‘wannabes’ hot and bothered.” Garrett noted...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized $59.07 billion of single-family loans with private mortgage insurance coverage during the third quarter of 2015, reflecting the increase in purchase-mortgage production, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. The flow of PMI-insured loans to the government-sponsored enterprises’ mortgage-backed securities program was up 12.3 percent from the second quarter, and it was likely the biggest such volume since the housing market collapsed in 2008. The data come from loan-level MBS disclosures, which Fannie started providing in 2013. The increased volume of privately-insured mortgages came...[Includes two data tables]
Given the fairly wide range in origination volume trends among the group, it’s difficult to forecast how the overall market fared based on just their activity.
GSE high-LTV mortgage programs gained traction during 3Q with the two securitizing $2.23 billion of insured purchase loans with LTV ratios of 96 or 97 percent...