While a number of jumbo lenders reduced their reliance on mortgage brokers in the years after the financial crisis, Primary Capital Mortgage has sourced a large share of its production from brokers. And the lender has earned strong assessments from rating services in the process. Moody’s Investors Service said 71 percent of the jumbo mortgages PCM originated between the second quarter of 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 were through brokers. The lender originated $114 million in jumbos in that span. The majority of PCM’s originations are agency mortgages. The rating service said...
Questions from Inside Nonconforming Markets prompted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to acknowledge last week that its director misspoke during a speech at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual convention. In arguing that the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule hasn’t caused a significant reduction in mortgage originations, Richard Cordray said last week that “most” jumbo loans are non-qualified mortgages. While comprehensive data on the non-QM share of jumbo mortgages is not available, a number of data sources suggest that most jumbos are in fact QMs, not non-QMs. Three of the five largest jumbo lenders told...
A typical jumbo mortgage-backed security is stronger in many ways than the non-agency MBS-like transaction Freddie Mac issued at the end of July, according to a recent analysis by Andrew Davidson & Co. However, the Freddie deal benefitted from a wrap provided by the government-sponsored enterprise. Freddie Mac Whole Loan Securities Trust Series 2015 SC01 was backed by mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $302.96 million. The risk-sharing transaction was structured as a cash securitization with $278 million in senior certificates guaranteed by Freddie and approximately $23 million in unguaranteed subordinate certificates. Andrew Davidson compared...
A new research paper aims to settle the debate about whether loose underwriting or the downturn in home prices was the biggest factor in the poor performance of subprime mortgages originated before the financial crisis. There was a sharp divergence in the performance of subprime mortgages originated in 2003 and those originated in 2006 and 2007. Some have suggested that the subprime mortgages originated just before the crash defaulted at higher rates largely because underwriting standards on the loans deteriorated, while others claim the main issue was that house price declines left the borrowers with negative equity. A paper by Christopher Palmer, a professor of real estate at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, claims...
Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, one of the most active nonprime residential lenders in the market, is on track to fund a company-record $400 million worth of mortgages this year, more than double what it produced last year. In a brief interview with Inside Nonconforming Markets this week, company founder and CEO Dan Perl said his goal for next year is $1 billion – all in loans that do not meet the qualified-mortgage standard. If the privately held Citadel – Perl is the chief shareholder – can hit...
The market is there – in nonprime and non-QM lending – the question is figuring out how to do it successfully, according to experts on a panel at the recent annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Most of the lending that’s fallen outside the qualified-mortgage standard has been to high net-worth individuals, said Matthew Nichols, CEO at Deephaven Mortgage. Most of them have millions in the bank and they’re being served by their bankers, he said, but there are a lot more potential non-QM borrowers who don’t have millions in the bank. Nichols said...
Parkside Lending’s insurance subsidiary recently became a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati. Parkside said access to FHLBank advances will help provide leverage to Parkside Mortgage Trust, a real estate investment trust. Officials at Parkside wouldn’t address the amount of advances PSL Insurance Company will have access to or whether the advances will help fund originations of non-agency mortgages. In addition to conventional conforming offerings, Parkside originates non-qualified mortgages. Resitrader recently launched...[Includes four briefs]
The FHA has extended the period during which servicers must identify delinquent Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans that have become due and payable or against which an initial legal action has been taken because they are no longer curable. In April, the FHA issued guidance that granted mortgagees 180 days, or until Oct. 23, 2015, to review their portfolios and bring defaulted HECM loans into compliance with the mandatory foreclosure timelines. On Oct. 16, the agency extended the timelines through Jan. 18, 2016. The initial guidance laid out loss mitigation options that HECM servicers may provide when property charges are not paid in accordance with the terms of the HECM loan. HECM loans that are subject to a repayment plan may continue as long as they remain current, said the FHA. Otherwise, lender/servicers must follow the requirements in the April guidance. The loss mitigation options are not available ...
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