The government-sponsored enterprises are well on their way to trimming their retained mortgage portfolios to less than $250.0 billion each by the start of 2018. As of the end of the third quarter, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a combined mortgage portfolio of $615.65 billion, down 3.3 percent from June. While Freddie historically had the larger retained holdings, the two portfolios are now roughly equal. Under the current terms of their conservatorship, Fannie and Freddie are required...[Includes one data table]
An affiliate of Shelter Growth Capital Partners issued a $113.71 million nonprime mortgage-backed security last week, according to offering documents obtained by Inside Nonconforming Markets. SG Residential Mortgage Trust 2016-1 is the first MBS from Shelter Growth’s SG Capital Partners. Shelter Growth is an investment manager and hedge fund with $1.08 billion in assets under management as of June 1, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Jumbo lending declined in the third quarter of 2016 on a quarterly basis at some mid-sized banks, according to an analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. Officials at the banks suggest that the market for jumbo mortgages is still relatively strong, however, with some showing increased pipelines for originations. First Republic Bank had $2.81 billion in total mortgage originations in the third quarter of 2016, down 4.4 percent from the previous quarter. Most of the bank’s production ...
Purchase mortgages accounted for a large share of the loans in prime non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued during the third quarter of 2016, according to an analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. Purchase mortgages accounted for 67.3 percent of the $4.07 billion in prime non-agency MBS issued during the quarter. That was the highest quarterly share for purchase mortgages since at least the first quarter of 2013. The purchase-mortgage ... [Includes two data charts]
Participants in the non-agency market are concerned that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hasn’t done enough to provide lenders and investors with certainty regarding the liability associated with the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule. The CFPB issued a proposed rule in August that would clarify a number of concerns regarding TRID. But the bureau’s proposed rule didn’t include guidance CFPB Director Richard Cordray had detailed in a Dec. 29 letter to the Mortgage ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently forced “one or more lenders” to take corrective actions regarding income-verification practices for non-qualified mortgages. The CFPB said the lenders weren’t verifying borrowers’ income properly under the ability-to-repay rule. The CFPB found that some lenders offered non-QMs that allowed for “alternative income documentation” for salaried borrowers. The CFPB said the products offered by the lenders relied primarily on the assets of ...
Officials at Ocwen Financial said the nonbank is close to resolving outstanding issues with state regulators which could allow the firm to resume acquiring mortgage servicing rights. However, the non-agency servicing acquisitions market is subdued, and Ocwen is putting an emphasis on originations. Ocwen significantly increased its servicing portfolio via acquisitions until enforcement actions by state regulators limited its ability to acquire MSRs. The consent order from the ...
The government-sponsored enterprises continued to sell their holdings of vintage nonprime mortgages and non-agency mortgage-backed securities during the third quarter of 2016. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stopped acquiring such assets after the financial crisis, but the loans and MBS routinely account for an outsized share of credit losses at the GSEs. Fannie and Freddie held nonprime mortgages with a total unpaid principal balance of ... [Includes one data chart]
Two Harbors Investment held jumbo mortgages with a fair market value of $655.80 million as of the end of September. While the real estate investment trust is on track to discontinue its mortgage loan conduit and securitization business, Two Harbors noted that it had outstanding purchase commitments to acquire $61.40 million in unpaid principal balance as of the end of September. Two Harbors said it incurred $1.19 million in costs during the third quarter ... [Includes three briefs]
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