The pace of GSE reform has been too slow, said Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO David Stevens, who’s calling for faster implementation of the Common Securitization Platform and Single-Security. He’s worried that if the CSP platform has not made enough progress, it could face changes in planning down the line. He said the real estate finance industry should continue to push for faster implementation to make sure that any advances made cannot be reversed. “Additionally, the platform should be open to non-agency mortgage-backed securities so that long-term efforts for both private capital and GSE reform can take advantage of the benefits of its efficiency, data and consistency” Stevens added, while speaking...
One of the government-sponsored enterprises appears likely to test a form of credit-risk transfer that mortgage bankers have been clamoring for: transactions that allow mortgage sellers to pay lower MBS guarantee fees on loans that have deeper mortgage insurance coverage than is required by the GSE charters. Robert Schaefer, vice president for credit enhancement strategy at Fannie Mae, said there is “a high probability that we will do an MI deal later this year that addresses the pain points” the GSE sees in the deeper MI concept. “We are talking...[Includes one data table]
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Open Market Trading Desk this week conducted the first of two small-value agency MBS sales operations, “for the purpose of testing operational readiness.” The second test is slated for June 1, 2016. The total current face value of sales across the two operations will be less than $150 million, according to the bank. The first transaction, which involved four Fannie Mae MBS currently valued at approximately $120 million, occurred in the middle of this week. The settlement date is June 13, 2016. Meanwhile, the June 1 operation will involve...
The share of new home mortgage originations packaged into MBS drifted slightly lower in the first quarter of 2016, a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals. Some $255.7 billion of newly originated mortgages were pooled in MBS in the first three months of the year, representing a paltry 67.3 percent of the estimated $380 billion of first-lien originations in the primary market. For the purposes of calculating securitization rates, loans aged more than three months and modified loans are excluded from agency MBS issuance figures. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized...[Includes one data table]
Investors who are suing the government over the terms of the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said the 53 documents recently made public solidify their claim that the government-sponsored enterprises had plenty of capital and a government bailout was unnecessary. The Treasury Department provided the documents to plaintiffs last week as part of a court case in Kentucky. “The newly de-designated documents also suggest...
Wells Fargo reported an 11.7 percent increase in its conventional-conforming originations during the first quarter, but the company’s GSE loan sales fell 12.2 percent on a sequential basis – quite a differential.
California remained the top state for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac activity in the first three months of 2016 with volume reaching $36.18 billion, three times as much as Texas, which trailed in second place with $12.43 billion in volume. However, GSE activity in California saw a 23.8 percent decline from the previous quarter while volume in Texas was up by 5.2 percent, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis. In California, the average Fannie and Freddie loan was $307,302 in line with the state’s 2015 average of $310,185. That number followed only Hawaii, which had an average loan size of $362,236 and the District of Columbia, which was $336,268.
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