The supply of home mortgage debt outstanding increased by 0.5 percent during the third quarter of 2015, following a similar modest gain during the previous period. A total of $9.952 trillion of single-family mortgage debt was outstanding at the end of September, according to a Federal Reserve report released late last week. It represented a second consecutive quarterly increase, something the mortgage servicing market has struggled to accomplish during the long contraction that started back in 2008. Most of the increase came...[Includes one data table]
Subservicing shops increased their portfolios to $1.50 trillion during the third quarter, a 6.4 percent sequential gain, as mortgage originators continued to rely on such specialty vendors, according to exclusive survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. Compared to a year ago, subservicing volume was up an impressive 28.2 percent. At Sept. 30, roughly 15.8 percent of all outstanding residential mortgages were being processed...[Includes one data table]
Lenders generated $25.0 billion in home-equity loans during the third quarter of 2015, according to Inside Mortgage Finance estimates, a modest 4.2 percent increase at a time when first-lien originations were fading. Home-equity lending – including open-ended lines of credit and closed-end second liens – hit its highest volume since the second quarter of 2008. Crashing home prices and extremely cautious underwriting have drastically reduced new home-equity lending. There is...[Includes three data tables]
Among other things, the language grants the CFPB greater flexibility to treat a balloon loan as a “qualified mortgage” if it was extended by a community bank or...
Meanwhile, Wells Fargo was the top-ranked ARM lender through three quarters in 2015 with $18.83 billion funded. PHH Mortgage was a somewhat close second...
Originating nonprime mortgages can be done without repeating the mistakes that contributed to the financial crisis, according to officials at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions. The firm, one of the most prominent lenders in a severely constrained market, launched in early 2014 and offers nonprime mortgages via wholesale and correspondent channels. Tom Hutchens, a senior vice president of sales and marketing at Angel Oak, said the lender is comfortable extending ...
A $56.26 million nonprime mortgage-backed security from Beach Point Capital is scheduled to close next week, according to sources close to the deal. RCO 2015-NQM1 Trust will be backed by mortgages originated by Citadel Loan Servicing, which will also service the loans. The deal will mark the third post-crisis MBS backed by newly originated mortgages, following two MBS from Lone Star Funds’ Colt Funding, including a deal issued last week. Nomura is the placement agent and seller ...
The first jumbo mortgage-backed security from a subsidiary of Hatteras Financial received relatively strong reviews from rating services. The $231.18 million Onslow Bay Mortgage Loan Trust 2015-1 received AAA ratings with credit enhancement of 8.55 percent on the senior tranche. DBRS and Standard & Poor’s said that while they find Onslow Bay to be an acceptable aggregator, they increased the required credit enhancement on the MBS somewhat due to Hatteras’ lack of experience ...
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