The prospect of legislation being offered that would grant the Department of Housing and Urban Development greater authority to manage the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program has improved significantly after two House lawmakers declared their intention to introduce a bipartisan bill. Reps. Michael Fitzpatrick, R-PA, and Denny Heck, D-WA, announced during a recent hearing by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance that they will co-sponsor legislation to give the FHA the authority it needs to swiftly implement HECM reforms by mortgagee letter. Fitzpatrick expressed his support for ...

The jumbo market is heating up with offerings from both EverBank and MountainView.

The long-awaited boom in nonperforming loan sales may finally be here, as megabanks such as Wells Fargo, Citigroup and HSBC have begun testing investor appetites by offering large packages in the open market. According to investors and advisors who play in the space, Wells recently auctioned off an $800 million NPL package and HSBC sold a $750 million portfolio. Recently, Popular Bank said that it entered...

Non-agency MBS execution is competitive with agency MBS execution for purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios below 70 percent and credit scores above 740.

Citigroup will pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac damages for the faulty MBS it sold to them but no one knows the cost of the settlement.

Bank investment in residential MBS fell 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013 to $1.562 trillion.

Banks and thrifts saw another drop in their MBS holdings in the first quarter of 2013 despite holding their own against the Federal Reserve’s voracious appetite for agency MBS. A new Inside MBS & ABS analysis of bank and thrift call reports reveals that industry investment in residential MBS fell 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013 to $1.562 trillion. That was down 4.4 percent from the record $1.634 trillion of MBS held in portfolio by banks and thrifts at the end of the first quarter of last year. Banks reported...[Includes two data charts]

The $443 million non-agency MBS, Chase’s second of the year, is set to receive AAA ratings with credit enhancement ranging from 6.90 percent to 10 percent for the top tranches.

Mortgage bankers originated $54 billion of jumbo loans in the first quarter, a slight decline from the prior period but the second best showing in two years.

The two biggest components of the residential mortgage market – conventional loans below the conforming loan limits and government-insured mortgages – saw measurable declines in new originations in early 2013, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis and ranking. The conventional-conforming market – nearly all of which is financed through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitization – fell to an estimated $333.0 billion during the first quarter of 2013. That was down 5.4 percent from the fourth quarter of last year, but the sector still accounted for a hefty 66.6 percent of total originations during the period. The conventional-conforming market share hasn’t changed...[Includes two data charts]