As earnings season got underway for publicly owned lenders, First Republic Bank, Flagstar Bank and Redwood Trust reported increased jumbo loan production in 2017. First Republic produced $11.57 billion of single-family mortgages in 2017, up 8.9 percent from the previous year. Jumbos account for a large majority of its lending. Flagstar originated $8.80 billion of jumbo loans last year, a 37.5 percent increase from 2016. And Redwood, which sources loans from correspondents, purchased ...
Legislation that would define loans held in portfolio by smaller banks as qualified mortgages garnered unanimous support at a markup in the House Financial Services Committee last week. H.R. 2226, the Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act, was approved on a 55-0 vote. The bill has been kicking around in Congress for years and was modified at the markup to help win support in the Senate. Rep. Andy Barr, R-KY, introduced the legislation. He said it will “expand access to ...
New Penn Financial recently introduced a new non-agency program that allows for non-qualified mortgages and alternative documentation, among other features. The SmartEdge product includes loan amounts up to $3.0 million, credit scores as low as 620, debt-to-income ratios up to 50.0 percent and loan-to-value ratios as high as 90.0 percent. New Penn is in the process of being sold to New Residential Mortgage, a real estate investment trust. SmartSelf allows ... [Includes two briefs]
An estimated $475.0 billion of new first-lien mortgages were originated in the final three months of the year, down 4.0 percent from the previous quarter, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis and ranking.
In a statement issued to Inside Mortgage Finance, Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA – a key player in the process – said he is still interested in the topic, noting the panel wants a...
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee this week continued to work on housing-finance reform legislation, with the hope that a bipartisan bill can still be cobbled together in a dysfunctional Congress. As for passage this year, that’s a different matter.
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