Plenty of attendees at NAR were steamed that after CFPB Director Richard Cordray made his remarks about TRID that he left the meeting without taking a single question from the audience.
Stevens also said that while he was FHA commissioner he chose not to go after lenders for violating the False Claims Act because he said such actions would have opened a “Pandora’s Box.”
Fidelity, a market leader in title insurance, has a market capitalization rate of $10.6 billion and is headed by William Foley, age 70, who has a history of spinning off companies.
Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie all posted solid gains in volume during April, but Ginnie had the strongest increase with issuance rising more than 32 percent…
The agency MBS market in April had its strongest month of new issuance in 20 months thanks to the combination of strong refinance volume and a surge in purchase-mortgage lending. A new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking reveals that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae issued a total of $121.10 billion of new single-family MBS last month, an increase of 22.1 percent from March. It marked the strongest output since August 2013, when new agency MBS was tapering off from a huge influx of refinance business. Refinance loans continued...[Includes two data charts]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to follow orders and prune their retained investment portfolios – and potential future income – during the first quarter of 2015. But the government-sponsored enterprises ended the period holding more of their own MBS than when it started. The combined Fannie/Freddie mortgage investment portfolio fell 0.5 percent during the first quarter of 2015. Under their conservatorship agreement, each GSE is required to reduce its mortgage portfolio to $250 billion by the end of 2018. They each have a little over $150 billion more to go and, as of the end of March, 15 quarters to do it. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has directed...[Includes one data chart]
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