Surprising no one, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee Wednesday decided not to raise the target rate on federal funds above the current 2.25 percent. The vote, as usual, was unanimous.
Multifamily lender Walker & Dunlop plans to expand its small-loan business, confident about investor demand and performance of such assets in the secondary market.
Mortgage-investing real estate investment trust New Residential Investment Corp., New York, informed the ailing Ditech Financial that it plans to terminate its roughly $83.7 billion subservicing contract.
Depending on what type of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac reform occurs in the next few years, there’s a growing concern in the market that foreign investors — and others — may shy away from their MBS unless there’s an explicit guarantee on the securities.
Nonbank mortgage operations continued their assault on the agency MBS market in 2018, increasing their penetration in both new issuance and servicing. [Includes two data charts.]
An estimated $9.6 billion of Ginnie Mae securities backed by FHA-insured reverse mortgages were issued in 2018, down from $10.5 billion a year ago, according to New View Advisors.
The Community Home Lenders Association has expressed concerns that Ginnie Mae is on a mission to reduce the number of MBS issuers and tighten credit standards — moves that would affect its core members and hurt its housing mission.
Commercial real estate collateralized loan obligations are a valuable financing tool, albeit with some risks, industry officials said at a conference sponsored by the CRE Finance Council in Miami last week.
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