According to a new letter obtained by Inside Mortgage Finance, HUD says it is uncertain whether any new loan created under the controversial eminent domain plan would qualify for FHA insurance.
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed similar lawsuits this week against Bank of America regarding an $855.67 million non-agency jumbo MBS issued in January 2008. The lawsuits claim that BofA failed to disclose key facts regarding one of the last jumbo deals to be issued before the securitization market essentially closed in 2008. BofA counters that the securities were sold to sophisticated investors that had “ample access” to the underlying data. BofA was the issuer of the security in question – Banc of America Mortgage 2008-A Trust – as well as the originator, servicer, sponsor and depositor, and affiliated entities managed the transaction. The regulators allege...
Stated-income loans are being offered at 5.49 percent as long as the borrower puts down 20 percent. Meanwhile, Walter wants to keep its contract terms with Fannie Mae secret.
Redwood Trust had a $2.6 billion pipeline of non-agency jumbo mortgages at the end of the second quarter of 2013. While that usually wouldn’t cause much concern for the real estate investment trust, the loans were originated before interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate non-agency jumbos spiked by 100 basis points. The increase, beginning in mid-May, caused spreads on non-agency jumbo MBS to widen significantly. However, officials at Redwood stressed this week that the non-agency MBS market didn’t ...
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust plans to issue its first non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security in the third quarter of 2013 by combining $393.0 million of non-agency jumbos it recently acquired in a bulk transaction with mortgages from its correspondent lenders. The real estate investment trust said it acquired $107.0 million in non-agency jumbos via its conduit in the second quarter, along with $8.0 million in the first three months of 2013. “Jumbo originations have been affected by the ...
President Obama this week endorsed a reduction in the FHA’s high-cost loan limits and called on the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to consider further decreases to reduce conforming loan limits. The proposal was included in a fact sheet that accompanied Obama’s speech this week on housing. The FHA’s high-cost loan limits are scheduled to be reduced at the end of this year. “HUD and FHFA should closely examine using their existing authorities to reduce ...
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