Also, Morgan Stanley recently increased its stake in Arch Capital Group to 6.3 percent. Arch owns CMG Mortgage Insurance, which is being renamed Arch Mortgage Insurance Company.
The FHA allows low downpayments on loans that have credit scores as low as 580, but numerous lenders have established their own underwriting overlays to protect against poor performance.
According to interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance, Lau’s company, Pingora Loan Servicing, has amassed roughly $10 billion in MSRs in less than nine months.
The new service from Freedom Mortgage will handle all aspects of the mortgage transaction, from the initial customer call to closing and servicing of the loan.
It appears that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has slowed its search for a chief executive and chairman to manage the fledgling common securitization platform, which is slated to be headquartered in Bethesda, MD. One former candidate for the CEO position told Inside The GSEs: “It’s pretty much turned into the mess I suspected it would a year ago.” Discussing the chairman position, he added: “They still haven’t come to terms on compensation for the person they want.”
January 2014 marked the fourth month in a row where combined agency securitization included more purchase-money mortgages than refinances, according to Inside MBS & ABS.
A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court ruling against Montgomery County, MD’s bid to collect real estate transfer taxes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The court rejected the plaintiff’s contention that the GSEs’ property sales were local in nature and outside Congress’ authority under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
More homebuyers opted for adjustable-rate mortgages as interest rates increased during 2013, although most of these loans remain in portfolio. ARMs accounted for 11.7 percent of mortgage originations in the third quarter of 2013, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, up from a share of 9.8 percent in the third quarter of 2012. Quarterly originations of ARMs have stayed relatively steady in recent years and hit $54 billion in the third quarter of 2013. But ARMs remain relatively rare in [Includes two data charts]
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