Nationstar Mortgage joined Ocwen Financial last week under the glare of the New York Department of Financial Services’ spotlight. Ben Lawsky, superintendent of the NYDFS, said the state regulator has received hundreds of complaints about Nationstar’s practices, including problems with loan modifications, improper fees and lost paperwork. “Our department has significant concerns that the explosive growth at Nationstar and other nonbank servicers may create capacity issues ...
For those of you tracking the lawsuits filed by GSE preferred investors against the federal government, one attorney told us this week that: “These cases won’t be resolved for years." Meanwhile, it appears that the CSP still has no CEO.
The residential MBS issued in 2013 equaled 78.5 percent of primary market originations, the highest securitization rate since 2010, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. The mortgage securitization rate typically moves higher when primary-market originations are declining because of the time lag between loan closing and MBS issuance. Last year started with a bang – $560 billion in new originations – and ended with a whimper, $305 billion. In the conventional conforming market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MBS issuance – even after excluding loans that were more than three months old when they were securitized – represented...[Includes one data chart]
"The facts regarding the department's work on mortgage fraud tell a much different story than this report," said a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
According to industry sources, UGI wanted the new trade association to operate on the principle of unanimous consent both for budgetary and policy matters, which was opposed by other MIs.
By itself, BofA accounted for 79.3 percent of the $606.3 billion shrinkage in commercial bank MSR portfolios during 2013. Where did all that servicing go to?
Well, at least GSE junior preferred shares are holding their own. Also, Five Oaks Investment is approving correspondents for its new jumbo flow-program...
One warehouse executive, requesting anonymity, said usage rates for the fourth quarter and the first two months of 2014 “have been very low.” He gave a range of 20 percent to 50 percent.
In asking for the SCOTUS review, the DOL argues that the court of appeals erred in holding that an interpretive rule that alters the agency’s previous interpretation of a substantive regulation must be promulgated through notice-and-comment rulemaking.
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