The Community Home Lenders of America is pushing for Congress to create a cash window for deliveries to Ginnie Mae. Former Ginnie President Ted Tozer noted the agency’s charter doesn’t allow it to operate a cash window.

Loans for the Westfield San Francisco Centre are in various commercial MBS; Ginnie expands RON options; Fitch rates PennyMac Financial Services; DBRS to assess securitizations of home-equity agreements.

Agency MBS industry insiders recently discussed specified pools, prepayment rates, home price growth and problems with ESG investing.

The mortgage servicing rights market has been incredibly volatile lately, Ginnie Mae President Alanna McCargo told attendees at SFVegas.

Ginnie Mae has reduced the required minimum size for MBS pools with home-equity conversion mortgages to $250,000 from $1 million.

Ginnie reduces minimum required pool size for HMBS; Ares Management to issue non-QM MBS; S&P extends comment period on triple-net lease changes; Stifel builds out agency MBS unit; commercial MBS issuers urged to consider advertising.

Ginnie Mae announced details of the changes to seasoning requirements for pooling of reperforming loans.

While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the dominant outlets for eNotes, other entities are looking to boost adoption of the technology. Ginnie Mae has seen greater enthusiasm for eNotes than anticipated since launching its program in early 2021.

Standards involving delinquencies and in-person audits of issuers will remain on hold through at least the end of June.

In late December, Ginnie seized HECM servicing from Reverse Mortgage Funding, which had recently filed for bankruptcy. Other HECM servicers are also facing liquidity pressure, according to industry analysts.