Edward Pinto, former chief credit officer of Fannie Mae who now studies housing trends for AEI, disputes NAR’s data and describes the first-time buyer market as “booming.”
An increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve is likely to be accompanied by a change to a Fed program that could have a significant impact on investors’ cost to finance purchases of MBS, according to industry analysts. The Fed could increase interest rates as soon as Dec. 16. In a report released this week, analysts at Deutsche Bank Securities noted that Fed officials have discussed removing a cap on the Fed’s overnight reverse-repurchase program when interest rates increase. “That program will almost surely put...
Some market analysts see an investment opportunity brewing in subprime auto ABS in the coming year, despite increasing regulatory attention. But certain rating analysts are emphasizing the rising losses the sector has been seeing for the last few months, and a few contrarians think the market is either poised to enter bubble territory or is already there. Consumer ABS analysts at Wells Fargo Securities are recommending subprime auto subordinated bonds rated BBB, convinced they offer good value on a risk-adjusted basis. With spreads set to finish 2015 at historically wide levels (excluding the financial crisis), the analysts expect...
Mortgage lenders repurchased $434.2 million of home loans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the third quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of securities disclosures made by the two government-sponsored enterprises. That was the lowest quarterly repurchase total since the GSEs, and other “asset securitizers,” began filing disclosures mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act with the Securities and Exchange Commission ... [Includes two data charts]
Quicken Loans recently launched a new, TRID-friendly product dubbed the “rocket mortgage,” so named because “in the eight minutes it takes a space shuttle to reach orbit, Americans will now be able to receive a full mortgage approval online,” the lender says in its marketing pitch. “Rocket Mortgage simplifies the largest, most complex and important financial transaction most consumers experience in their lifetime,” said Linglong He, chief information officer for the lender ...
Mortgage employment has risen by just over 5 percent the past year while loan production is on track to increase 33 percent from 2014 – a sign that residential lenders continue to hire as few workers as possible and use outsourcing firms. According to interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Trends over the past week, it appears that demand for experienced loan officers will remain strong in the coming year, but servicing staffs will continue to shrink. Mortgage recruiter ...
Six months after rolling out an “unsecured” consumer loan, loanDepot has already funded $250 million worth of loans, and issued a $150 million security backed by the collateral. Will other nonbank mortgage lenders follow suit? The short answer to that question is yes, probably, but it remains to be seen whether nonbanks will have the stomach for the risk, though several executives interviewed by Inside Mortgage Trends concede that, in the end, the yield on such products ...
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