Nonbanks are stepping up to the plate on agency MBS. Meanwhile, a handful of large "term" loans are being put together, allowing investors to finance MSRs.
Federal regulators issued a revised credit risk retention/qualified residential mortgage proposed rule late last month, one that tilts heavily in the direction of the qualified mortgage provisions established in the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule – and that close proximity concerns the bureau’s director, Richard Cordray. “The proposal released Aug. 28 we see as another key step in obtaining further certainty for the mortgage market going forward,” said Cordray, who as one of the four members of the Federal Deposit...
Some folks in the mortgage broker community have been suggesting that operating as a mini-correspondent will help brokers avoid points-and-fees complications with the qualified mortgage definition under the CFPB’s ability-to-repay final rule. As it stands now under the CFPB’s rule, lender- paid compensation will have to be counted in the 3 percent compensation limitation for qualified mortgages. “The broker segment continues to mull over the final ‘final’ rule from the CFPB regarding compensation,” said mortgage broker Rob Chrisman in...
The Mortgage Bankers Association recently warned the CFPB that a move by the Federal Housing Finance Agency to lower loan limits for the government-sponsored enterprises could negatively affect qualified mortgage status and borrower access to credit. “Given that we are in the early, fragile stages of a housing recovery, we urge the bureau to consider additional refinements to the QM requirements to mitigate the combined impact of the rule and the FHFA’s action on loan limits,” the MBA said. The trade group noted that the QM rule...
The GSEs continued to see solid increases in purchase-mortgage business, which increased by almost 7 percent from July to August. It was the fifth straight monthly gain for the two.
Last month, senior staff from the Senate Banking Committee met with various industry “stakeholders” – including trade associations, consumer groups and academics – to hear their thoughts on housing finance reform and the fate of the GSEs.
If the agencies stick with their current plan to extend QRM status to any home loan that meets the “qualified mortgage” safe harbor, regardless of downpayment amount, private MIs would have to sell their product based on its economic value.
The revised risk-retention rule proposed last week by federal regulators includes provisions that are looser than current practices in the non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security market and some that are more stringent. Regulators also acknowledge that the proposed rule maintains incentives for lenders to focus on originations of agency mortgages. The regulators now favor aligning the definition of qualified residential mortgages under the risk-retention rule with the qualified mortgage standard ...
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