According to exclusive survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, loan brokers accounted for 9.8 percent of all originations in the fourth quarter, a slight improvement from the 9.6 percent market share reading in the third quarter.
Mortgage repurchases peaked in 2009 at $34.276 billion, fell to $31.811 billion in 2010 and $20.943 billion in 2011, and then dropped to just $12.966 billion in 2012.
Loan correspondents and mortgage brokers continue to play a major role in the agency mortgage market, accounting for 42.9 percent of loans securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae in 2013, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis. Correspondents accounted for most of the third-party originations securitized by the agencies, and Wells Fargo was the top producer of these loans. Just over half of the loans sold by Wells were ... [Includes one data chart]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued $44.6 billion in single-family mortgage-backed securities during the month of February, a 5.1 percent monthly decline and a 62.0 percent drop for the first two months of 2014. February’s decline was less steep than January’s 15.8 percent month-to-month fall off in MBS. Top-ranked Wells Fargo’s Fannie and Freddie securitization at $6.70 billion rose by 25.9 percent on a monthly basis but dropped 71.9 percent year-to-date.
A few weeks back, Rep. Mark Takano, D-CA, called for Congressional hearings on the single-family rental MBS market, singling out investments made by the Blackstone Group.
A New York appeals court last week revived Assured Guaranty Corp’s claims for damages in its lawsuit against Credit Suisse Group AG concerning $1.8 billion in residential MBS. New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously reversed a trial court’s decision dismissing Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.’s claims for rescissory and consequential damages in an action against Credit Suisse. Assured filed...
Greater standardization and transparency is needed to overcome the impediments to growing a new issue, non-agency MBS market, according to Michael Stegman, housing finance policy adviser to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. In remarks this week at the JP Morgan Securitized Products Research Conference, Stegman said lack of housing finance reform, lingering distrust among non-agency securitizers, lack of product and the trauma of heavy losses have stunted the growth of the market. The lack of reform of the government-sponsored enterprises should not become...
Although investors and participants initially showed a great deal of interest in the fledgling market for bonds backed by single-family rental properties, rating agencies are starting to take a closer look at the business and don’t like everything they see. “Rising U.S. home prices have pushed down rental yields in many single-family rental markets, a trend that will likely discourage some institutional investors from buying distressed properties and converting them into rental units,” according to a recent report from Moody’s Investor Service. The rating agency adds...
The House of Representatives last week passed legislation addressing the use of eminent domain authority to seize and cure underwater mortgage loans as part of a municipality’s efforts to stem high foreclosure rates. By a vote of 353-65, lawmakers passed H.R. 1944, the Private Rights Protection Act, which would bar city and county governments that get federal economic-development funds from using eminent domain to seize mortgage notes from investors and unilaterally restructure the loans before selling to other investors. Included in the legislation is...
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