The White House believes that the current housing finance system, where the government guarantees more than 80 percent of all mortgages through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA, is unsustainable.
According to an IRS private-letter ruling, certain excess servicing rights would constitute a real-estate asset, and income from the spread would be treated as interest on obligations secured by mortgages on real property.
The wrath of Wall Street has descended upon Richmond, CA, after the city council adopted a plan using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages, as a last resort, and resell them to beleaguered homeowners at a lower price. The American Securitization Forum, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Association of Mortgage Investors condemned Richmond’s decision to implement an April 2 agreement with Mortgage Resolution Partners (MRP) to use eminent domain to address the city’s severe foreclosure problem. The city became the first municipality in the country to adopt such an approach, though not the first to consider the idea. Richmond, like many California cities and municipalities, was hit...
Certain provisions in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed changes to its mortgage servicing rule conflict with Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s own servicing guidelines and should be amended, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In a comment letter, the Finance Agency cited the similar goals of the FHFA’s single, consistent set of servicing procedures established in 2011 to form the Servicing Alignment Initiative and the bureau’s 2013 Mortgage Servicing Final Rule. …
Mortgage lenders and servicers are dealing with increased regulatory scrutiny, compressed margins and a competitive origination environment. As interest rates continue to rise, firms are finding that many of the loans they currently service may no longer qualify as suitable refinance candidates. Additionally, as property values stabilize, a growing number of borrowers may become easy targets for other lenders. To address these issues, Rumson, NJ-based Loan Value Group has developed a package of ...
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