The funds participating in the Public-Private Investment Program ended their asset purchases in the fourth quarter of 2012 and generated strong returns on investments in non-agency mortgage-backed securities. While Public-Private Investment Funds can retain their holdings through 2017, most have liquidated their portfolios. Nine funds participating in the PPIP purchased $24.9 billion in MBS, largely vintage non-agency MBS along with some commercial MBS. At the end of the ... [Includes one data chart]
Wall Street raised no objections to a Ginnie Mae proposal to consolidate its two mortgage-backed securities programs, indicating the move would be good for securitization and result in other positives. However, there appeared to be no consensus among players on how to get there. Representatives of Ginnie Mae and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association met early this month to discuss the agency’s proposal. Analysts agreed it is far too early in the game to discern a clear path towards a single Ginnie Mae MBS program and that implementation is likely years away. Nevertheless, there were ...
Ginnie Mae servicers reported a small increase in servicing volume during the first three months of 2013, with Ocwen Loan Servicing posting the largest gains from last quarter and from a year ago. Servicers held a total of $1.33 trillion in government-backed mortgage debt outstanding at the end of the quarter, up a notch from the fourth quarter and 8.2 percent more than the total Ginnie Mae servicing debt a year ago. Though Ocwen was fifth in the ranking with $36.08 billion, its servicing volume was up more than 1000 percent both from the last quarter and from the same period last year. Among the top Ginnie servicers, only ... [One chart]
A top official of the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the agency is as concerned as Congress and the industry about mortgages seized through the power of eminent domain and will not refinance any mortgage taken in this manner. Testifying at a recent hearing before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, Charles Coulter, deputy assistant secretary for housing, said FHA leadership is very much concerned about the idea of seizing troubled mortgages held in private-label securitizations under the power of ...
Through the first quarter of 2013, 1.1 million borrowers have received permanent HAMP modifications, well below the 3 million to 4 million the Obama administration projected when launching the program in 2009.
The long-awaited boom in nonperforming loan sales may finally be here, as megabanks such as Wells Fargo, Citigroup and HSBC have begun testing investor appetites by offering large packages in the open market. According to investors and advisors who play in the space, Wells recently auctioned off an $800 million NPL package and HSBC sold a $750 million portfolio. Recently, Popular Bank said that it entered...
Non-agency MBS execution is competitive with agency MBS execution for purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios below 70 percent and credit scores above 740.
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