A few months back, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered Fannie Me and Freddie to end their involvement in SFR financial arrangements. However, any deals in progress were allowed to close...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac turned in a solid gain in single-family production during the third quarter of 2018, according to an exclusive ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. The two government-sponsored enterprises issued $213.81 billion of new single-family mortgage-backed securities during the third quarter, a solid 10.4 percent increase from the previous three-month period. At $592.02 billion in production through the first nine months of ... [Includes three data charts]
As prospects wane in warehouse lending, some commercial banks are pondering a move into financing mortgage servicing rights but have a major concern: Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage giant that’s in the midst of a $1 billion pilot program. During a recent Congressional oversight hearing, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt for the first time revealed the size of the MSR-financing pilot, saying it’s needed because nonbanks “do not have access to ...
Mortgage insurance companies reported they expect to be in compliance with updates to private MI eligibility requirements for doing business with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that were released late last week. The final version of PMIERs 2.0 will take effect on March 31, 2019, and analysts agree that other than a few tweaks, they aren’t terribly different than the original proposal. Since 2015, the U.S. Mortgage Insurers said, PMIERs have nearly doubled the amount of capital each mortgage insurer ...
When the going gets tough in the mortgage industry and profit margins begin to wither, thinly capitalized lenders start heading for the exits. But of late, the selling has been light, with a few large blockbuster deals – Ditech and loanDepot – remaining in the “maybe” column. “There’s a lot of chatter out there, but not much in the way of done-deals,” said Chuck Klein, managing partner of Mortgage Banking Solutions, Austin, TX. “But companies are concerned – they’re looking at the next 24 months and ...
The industry is still waiting for guidance on how mortgage-related rules were changed by the Dodd-Frank regulatory relief bill, even though most provisions took effect immediately when the bill was signed into law in May. A number of requirements were changed in regard to smaller financial institutions by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, including the qualified-mortgage standard. However, the industry is still awaiting guidance from the Consumer Financial ...
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