It was the biggest volume of new lending above the conforming loan limit since the second quarter of 2007 – before “emergency” conforming loan limits were authorized by Congress.
A spokesman for Wells Fargo told Inside Mortgage Finance that “most of the displacements were on the fulfillment/processing side” of the business and did not include loan officers.
The $11.6 billion deal resolved Fannie's long-standing claims that BofA sold the GSE defective mortgages and mishandled various loans it serviced for Fannie between 2000 and 2008.
On a combined basis, the nine lender/servicers tracked by Inside Mortgage Trends generated $243 billion in single-family mortgages during the second quarter, a little less than half the entire market.
With Fannie lowering its LTV maximum it will reduce the pool of eligible GSE borrowers and likely shift those loans over to FHA, which means private mortgage insurance firms will lose business.
Cerberus Capital is contemplating purchasing additional mortgage banking firms. Meanwhile, the CFPB doesn't like what it sees in the servicing space when it comes to customer service.
S&P has been the top non-agency MBS rating agency over the years but DBRS captured the title in 2012 with 55 percent of rated transactions, according to Inside MBS & ABS.
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