Originations of non-agency jumbo mortgages are stronger than the overall market, big banks are competing for wealthy borrowers and smaller firms are looking to enter the market. While jumbos originated in recent years have performed exceptionally well, Standard & Poor’s stresses that lenders should control their growth. “In our opinion, controlled growth is a key aspect to the comprehensiveness and ultimate success of an originator’s business strategy,” the rating service said in a recent overview of jumbo performance and best practices. “We believe that aggressive growth strategies could result in difficulties managing the quality of the origination process.” S&P noted...
The National Association of Independent Housing Professionals is maneuvering to sue the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over broker disclosure of lender-paid compensation under the new ability-to-repay rule, but has yet to green-light an actual filing, pending a needed fundraiser, Inside Mortgage Finance has learned. “The CFPB is an independent agency with no oversight. From their inception on July 21, 2011, they have continually used their authority to pick winners and losers, causing unprecedented harm to consumers, mortgage brokers, loan originators, appraisers and other small-business housing professionals,” the organization said in a fund-raising appeal. “In order to stop these anti-consumer, anti-competition, job-killing rules, NAIHP is filing suit.” In its fundraising pitch, the group noted...
Representatives of community banks and credit unions again told sympathetic members of Congress about the harmful effects they anticipate upon their mortgage business once all of the related rules promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finally kick in come early January. “Every aspect of mortgage lending is subject to new, complex and expensive regulations that will upend the economics of this line of business,” Industrial Bank President and CEO Doyle Mitchell, representing the Independent Community Bankers of America, told members of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations during a hearing this week. In particular, community bankers are deeply concerned...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which inherited RESPA enforcement from HUD, has been leaning on this test in such enforcement actions of its own.
In other subprime news, industry veteran Jon Daurio was recently in New York talking to potential investors about his new nonbank venture, Nikkael Capital Corp.
The top reasons for FHA condo denials include financial instability, pending litigation, insufficient insurance coverage and outdated or missing documentation.
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