With residential originations expected to fall by 25 percent next year, some mortgage executives are predicting grim news in terms of new hiring, especially in any field tied to loan production. But as always, there are always a few “silver linings” in any downdraft, mortgage banking being no exception to the rule. A handful of firms say they are still aggressively recruiting residential loan officers who have a solid background in purchase-money lending – that is, sales professionals with deep ties to ...
Bexil American Mortgage partnered with a private real estate investment trust to launch a correspondent program. Meanwhile, New Jersey filed a lawsuit against Credit Suisse regarding non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued before the financial crisis.
The Federal Reserve will slightly decrease the amount of its monthly purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities but agency MBS issuance might decline by even more than the Fed's planned taper.
Sales of several bulk portfolios of mortgage servicing rights were still pending as yearend approached, with talk increasing about a busy year in the mergers and acquisitions market for 2014. As always, the driver of such talk was interest rates: Higher rates are causing MSRs to increase in value, while a slowdown in refinancing is scaring many under-capitalized nonbanks into considering the once-unthinkable: selling out or partnering with a competitor. Originations are...
A BuckleySandler lawyer reached into Zen lore to make his point. “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” he asked. Similarly, “Starting in 2014: If a lender complies with ATR/QM but cannot evidence it, has the lender complied?”
The drop in warehouse commitments mirrored, somewhat, the fall-off in residential originations, which declined almost 19 percent in the third quarter, according to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.
Wells, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase accounted for a combined 44.7 percent of the $517.75 billion in bank HELOCs outstanding at the end of the third quarter.
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