Although Fannie Mae has set purchase limits on how much production newly approved seller/servicers can sell to the GSE, Freddie Mac has shied away from such caps.
Nationstar Mortgage is telling potential investors in the company that it plans to be a significant player in settlement services, REO management, processing and other areas.
At least one top-five ranked residential servicer is planning to offer for sale a decent-sized package of mostly nonperforming servicing rights over the next month.
Residential lenders that are relatively new to the seller/servicer ranks of Fannie Mae continue to gripe about the purchase limits the GSE has placed on them, causing the agency to spell out its reasoning in an online commentary. According to a recent message posted to Fannie’s website by Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer John Nichols, the caps the GSE placed on new customers – nonbanks primarily – were caused by what the company calls a “significant shift in the composition of our customer base and the emergence of many new originating institutions with whom we have done little or no business.” He adds: “This rapid change in the marketplace prompted...
Underwater homeowners who have remained current on their payments and who can demonstrate a “hardship” may be eligible to relinquish their homes, cancel their mortgage debt and avoid the messy foreclosure process under the terms of a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac policy change to take effect in March. The two government-sponsored enterprises will broaden the authority of their servicers to approve a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure to non-delinquent Fannie or Freddie borrowers who can no longer afford to stay in the home. Effective March 1, the new deed-in-lieu option is...
Norton Wells, senior vice president of Bank of America’s mortgage resolution team, has left the company, industry officials confirmed to Inside Mortgage Finance.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a field hearing scheduled for January 17 in Atlanta, and industry sources fully anticipate that the bureau will release its final mortgage servicing rule the night before.
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