You thought rates would be falling by now, causing the MBS you own to spike in value. Right? It didn’t work out that way, but it might now. Advice: Bet on a rate cut from the Fed by the fall.
The collapse of commercial real estate during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t the result of poor underwriting by lenders, but due to a widespread misperception of risk, according to a new Fed paper.
Ginnie to increase reporting requirements on defaults, loss mitigation; Fitch prepares to rate commercial PACE securitizations; loans for hotels near Disney World head into commercial MBS; FHA extends waiver tied to Ginnie multifamily MBS.
Ginnie cautioned issuers that it monitors their portfolios to ensure they are meeting acceptable risk parameters, including those related to prepayment activity.
Newly-released minutes from the Fed’s meeting in March indicate that the Fed is ready to slow the pace of Treasury runoff while maintaining the already slow pace of MBS runoff.
A district court judge threw out parts of a lawsuit against Ginnie Mae for canceling Texas Capital Bank’s first-priority lien on a loan portfolio of Reverse Mortgage Funding but allowed a key challenge to go ahead.