Determining a self-employed borrower’s ability to repay can be one of the more challenging underwriting tasks for non-agency lenders. Shelley Callaghan, a senior marketing program manager at MGIC, said one of the main issues to consider when underwriting borrowers with income from partnerships or S corporations is the pattern of cash distributions from the business to the potential borrower. A number of nonbanks have launched non-agency programs for self-employed ...

The upcoming batch of non-agency interest-only mortgages that will hit a 10-year recast is larger than the IO recast volume seen last year, according to Moody’s Investors Service. However, the rating service predicts that a spike in default rates prompted by the recasts will be less severe than that of 2015. “Default rates will likely stay below those of Alt A IO loans in non-agency mortgage-backed securities which re-cast to full payment in 2015 because of a slightly smaller expected ...

Comparing 2005 with 2015, the share of loan applications from borrowers with low credit scores has declined at a greater pace than originations of mortgages to borrowers with lower credit scores, according to CoreLogic. “The decline in originations could be a result of potential applicants being either too cautious or discouraged from applying, more so than tight underwriting as the culprit in lower mortgage activity,” said Archana Pradhan, an economist at ... [Includes seven briefs]

FHA originations rose significantly in the first quarter of 2016 from the same period last year even as VA loan production decreased slightly, according to an analysis of Ginnie Mae data. Lenders delivered $54.4 billion of FHA-insured loans to Ginnie Mae for securitization during the first three months, up 36.2 percent from the previous year. In contrast, the volume of VA loans securitized over the same period, $35.0 billion, fell 1.5 percent compared to the same period a year ago. A strong purchase-mortgage market drove FHA activity from January to March. The reduction in FHA’s annual insurance premium in January 2015 continued to have an impact on FHA’s purchase-loan market share. In 2015, FHA purchase originations accounted for $151.0 billion of the estimated $881.0 billion in total purchase originations (conventional and government single-family forward originations), according to ... [ 2 charts ]

While uncertainty persists regarding TRID, KBRA said it only slightly increased its loss expectations on Redwood’s planned jumbo MBS.

The FDIC said that acting as a receiver of the failed banks it “may professionals and entities whose conduct resulted in losses to those institutions…”

Fannie Mae said the result is that potential buyers may be wrongly disqualifying themselves before they even apply for a mortgage…

Chimera retained about 15.0 percent of all three of the non-agency MBS...

There are about 75 correspondent buyers in the market today, but that figure will winnow down to about 60 as margins stay tight...

Although statistics are hard to come by, Mid America believes it is one of the most active buyers of such mortgages, most of which are nonconforming jumbos.