Investors Unite speaks for GSE shareholders – except senior preferred holders (the Treasury Department)…

Sounding like a candidate, the CFPB Director noted: “If we do not push back on the forces that press people down, we are allowing America’s promises to go unfulfilled.”

Lower rates could translate into more refinancings, but could cause hedging problems for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

Groups signing the Patenaude letter include the Center for Responsible Lending, Community Mortgage Lenders of America, NAACP, NAR and many others…

Brian Benjamin, who runs Two River Mortgage & Investment in Red Bank, NJ, noted that if brokerage shops are laying off, “it’s support staff.”

CFPB's Cordray clerked for both Robert Bork and Anthony Kennedy...

The volume of jumbo mortgages handled by the top servicers continued to increase in the second quarter of 2017, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. A group of 30 companies serviced an estimated $957.50 billion of jumbos at the end of June, up 2.3 percent from the previous quarter and up 8.7 percent from the second quarter of 2016. The servicers outpaced...[Includes one data table]

Delinquencies on non-qualified mortgages have been minimal and many borrowers with the loans seek to refinance relatively quickly, according to an analysis by Wells Fargo Securities. Among non-QMs with at least two years of seasoning that were included in nonprime mortgage-backed securities, more than 97 percent haven’t missed a payment, according to Wells. “Borrower credit performance has been robust so far, with delinquency rates and losses still subdued,” the analysts said. As of the end of July, only one non-QM in a nonprime MBS has gone...

An affiliate of Bayview Asset Management issued a $230.0 million non-agency mortgage-backed security this week largely stocked with seasoned mortgages, including one non-qualified mortgage. DBRS and Fitch Ratings placed AAA ratings on Bayview Mortgage Fund IVc Trust 2017-RT3, without putting much emphasis on the non-QM. Non-QMs had accounted for 2.1 percent of a $125.82 million MBS from Bayview that priced in July and 1.0 percent of a $208.13 million deal it priced in April. The sponsor of the deal will retain...

New nonprime originations haven’t been enough to prop up the volume of subprime mortgages outstanding, according to a new ranking by Inside Nonconforming Markets. The top 15 subprime servicers handled an estimated $212.73 billion of the loans as of the end of the second quarter of 2017, down 4.1 percent from the previous quarter and down 18.2 percent from a year ago. None of the servicers posted...[Includes one data table]