An affiliate of Shelter Growth Capital Partners issued a $119.87 million mortgage-backed security backed by newly originated nonprime mortgages this week. It’s the second nonprime MBS from SG Capital Partners, following a $113.71 million deal in October. The new issuance is fairly similar to the previous MBS from the firm, including relatively large loan balances and many adjustable-rate mortgages. SG Residential Mortgage Trust 2017-1 included mortgages with an ...
Ocwen Financial announced that it signed an agreement with the New York State Department of Financial Services this week to terminate the state regulator’s third-party operations monitor at Ocwen on April 14. Ocwen said the agreement provides a path for the nonbank to receive approval from the NYDFS to resume acquiring mortgage servicing rights. The Structured Finance Industry Group is preparing the next phase of its effort to revive the non-agency ... [Includes two briefs]
FHA-insured jumbo lending fell slightly in the fourth quarter of 2016 although year-over-year results were a lot better. Production of conforming-jumbo purchase and refinance loans insured by the FHA slipped 0.9 percent in the fourth quarter, a slight bump on the way to an annual jumbo origination total of $26.9billion. Year-over-year, FHA jumbo production was up 5.6 percent from 2015. Conforming-jumbo loans represented 9.8 percent of FHA loans securitized last year, according to data compiled by affiliated newsletter Inside Mortgage Finance. Purchase mortgages comprised 64.9 percent of jumbo loans insured by FHA in 2016 and 98.7 percent were fixed-rate loans. Nonbanks comprised the top five FHA jumbo lenders. Wells Fargo, which closed the year with $423.8 million in FHA jumbo originations, was in sixth place. Quicken Loans led the field with $802.5 million of ... [ Charts ]
The GSEs have developed proposals to more closely align their mortgage insurance master policies with their reps-and-warranties policies, which will be reviewed by the FHFA this year.
But the issue is hardly settled. Ron Haynie, senior vice president of mortgage policy at the ICBA, told Inside Mortgage Finance that he expects a change in the dividend payment this year.
Joe Farr, director of marketing for MBS Quoteline, said MBS prices have actually improved since the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike rates one week ago.
The top tier of mortgage producers gained some market share in 2016, but call-report data show that community banks continued to play a huge role in the primary market, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. The top 100 lenders produced a hefty $1.622 trillion in first-lien mortgages last year, including their correspondent and wholesale-broker programs. Although their production faltered by 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter, full-year volume was up 18.2 percent from 2015. Banks, thrifts and credit unions ended...[Includes two data tables]
Over the past six quarters, selling Ginnie Mae servicing rights has been a difficult task with buyers turning their noses up at the product, preferring instead to stay within the safe confines of deals tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans. According to investment bankers interviewed by Inside Mortgage Finance, the Ginnie market for mortgage servicing rights has been problematic for two main reasons: the fear of lawsuits and sanctions tied to FHA lending, and fast prepayment speeds tied to FHA and VA streamline refis. But now that rates have risen – and mostly stayed that way – there are...
Mortgage lenders continue to gain share in the home-purchase market as investors and other cash buyers have become less prevalent and the supply of distressed properties declines. Some 562,000 new homes were sold in 2016, according to the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mortgage financing was used for 95.0 percent of the sales, up from a 92.0 percent share the previous year. The cash share of new home sales hit...
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