While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s plan to extend the qualified-mortgage patch was not unexpected, its proposal to eliminate the debt-to-income threshold has sparked a debate.
Investment banking firms hoping to land the Fannie/Freddie “re-IPO” con-tract need to convince FHFA’s GSE advisor first. Problem is: We don’t know who the advisor is, at least not yet. We may soon.
Since the launch of the single security, investors have increasingly turned to the use of specified pools rather than the TBA market, said Bob Ryan, a former FHFA official and one of the architects of the UMBS.
The stock market boomed in 2019 and mortgage stocks followed right along. Mortgage insurance equities had nice gains but the top performers were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (Includes data chart.)
FHFA Director Mark Calabria walked back the idea of using a consent decree as part of the agency’s plan to recap and release Fannie and Freddie from conservatorship.
The agency one-family servicing market grew 1.8% during the third quarter, more than twice the increase in total single-family mortgage debt outstanding over the same period. (Includes two data charts.)
Freddie Mac, following in the footsteps of Fannie Mae, is offering buyouts to a portion of its workforce. A byproduct of the recap-and-release plan? It certainly looks that way.
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