While holders of mortgage servicing rights have taken large writedowns in recent quarters due to declines in interest rates, New Residential Investment has managed to report relatively large profits. New Residential had $68.65 million in net income attributable to common stockholders in the second quarter of 2016, down from $111.74 million the previous quarter and $75.12 million in the second quarter of 2015. New Residential held $1.36 billion in excess MSRs ...
With federal civil monetary penalties set to rise significantly over the next couple of months, mortgage industry stakeholders are getting increasingly concerned about retroactivity in some of the interim final rules adopted by federal agencies to implement the revised penalty amounts, according to industry attorneys. Although application of the adjusted civil penalty amounts to violations that occurred prior to the passage of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment ...
While the homeownership rate for people 25 to 34 years old remains well below the levels seen for that age group before the financial crisis, analysts at Fannie Mae note that the homeownership rate for millennials is starting to increase. Fannie defined millennials as those born between 1981 and 2000. Patrick Simmons, director of strategic planning in Fannie’s economic and strategic research group, turned to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to ...
Some 61.0 percent of loans securitized by Ginnie Mae in the first half of 2016 were purchase mortgages, compared to 46.2 percent for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
Since the beginning of summer, at least eight mortgage-related merger and acquisition deals have come to light and more are on the way, according to an analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. To date, most of the activity has involved nonbank purchasers, with at least two of the acquirers – Home Point Financial and Caliber Home Loans – having private equity behind them. And of the eight, only one involves the sale of stock through a “franchise” transaction ...
American International Group early this week announced an agreement to sell its mortgage insurance subsidiary, United Guaranty Corp., to Arch Capital Group for $3.4 billion in cash and securities as part of AIG’s plan to become a leaner, more profitable insurer. As of the midway point in 2016, UG was the top private MI in traditional new insurance written, with an 18.8 percent share of the market. Arch MI ranked as the smallest of the seven active firms, with an ...
Among the top 10 lenders in the second quarter of 2016, PennyMac Financial posted the largest increase to originations on a quarterly basis and compared with the second quarter of 2015, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The lender plans to continue to grow, including launching a wholesale-broker operation in mid-2017 and putting an emphasis on consumer-direct production. PennyMac reported originations of $16.11 billion in the second quarter, up 47.9 percent ...
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