In a potentially significant shift, Wells Fargo has set aside $507.0 million in mortgages for inclusion in a non-agency mortgage-backed security. Wells is the top jumbo lender and some industry analysts suggest that the jumbo MBS market won’t rebound until banks like Wells stop retaining production in portfolio. Wells said loans designated as held-for-sale for a future MBS are nonconforming mortgages that would have otherwise been stored in its portfolio. Although no other details about ...
Both FHA and VA saw measurable declines in the number of seriously delinquent loans during the second quarter, although early-stage default rates were up slightly. A new Inside FHA/VA Lending analysis of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities data found timely payments being made for 93.6 percent of FHA loans and 96.7 percent of VA loans at the end of June. Those numbers were off slightly from the first quarter, when seasonal factors typically lead to the lowest delinquency rates of the year. The increase in late payments was concentrated in loans that were one or two months overdue. There were 419,366 FHA and VA loans in this category at the end of June, up 13.5 percent from the end of March. They represented 4.13 percent of total FHA and VA loans in Ginnie MBS. FHA delinquency rates were substantially higher than those in the VA program, and the number of early-stage delinquencies ... [Charts]
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