Jumbo mortgage lending – including agency-eligible mortgages that exceed normal loan limits – lost some market share in 2017, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis.
Citigroup is investing in a multi-state plan to expand a nonprofit community development financial institution’s ability to provide better access to mortgage credit to low- to moderate-income, minority, rural and other underserved first-time homebuyers.
With loan production suffering a noticeable decline in the first two months of the year, several small and medium-sized firms are struggling with profitability, causing intense speculation that the industry could be in for a wicked round of consolidation.
The bill would make it easier for loan officers to continue working if they leave a bank to go to a nonbank or leave a state-licensed shop in one state to go to a new state.
The Senate on Tuesday voted 67-32 to proceed to debate on legislation that would roll back some mortgage-related provisions from the Dodd-Frank Act while leaving intact most of the rules that swept through the industry following the housing meltdown.
Gordon Albrecht, a senior director at specialty servicer FCI Lender Services, told IMFnews the new CFPB rules, in general, mean “more work and more servicing costs.”
Whether the proposed housing-finance reform draft bill from the Senate will help affordable housing efforts depends on whom you ask. Community lenders and fair housing groups said the plan will put low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers at a disadvantage, while others believe it will be a boon to making housing more affordable for that demographic.
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