Private MI Volume Slumped in 4Q18 Fannie/Freddie MBS January 10, 2019 John Bancroft Fannie and Freddie securitized $66.89 billion of single-family loans with private MI coverage during the fourth quarter…Read More
Angel Oak Expects Sustained Non-QM Growth in 2019 January 9, 2019 Brandon Ivey The non-QM market is booming, said Angel Oak executive Tom Hutchens…Read More
Short Takes: UWM Removes LLPAs on Certain Loans / New Mortgage Applications Come Roaring Back / Tempering Optimism with a Government Shutdown / Seterus’ Leslie Peeler? / Complaints Registered January 9, 2019 Paul Muolo Four years ago, Leslie Peeler, the Fannie Mae senior vice president in charge of the GSE’s servicing decisions, left the mortgage giant for Seterus. Read More
The Final Ginnie Mae Issue Tally for 2018: $388 Billion January 8, 2019 George Brooks Feeding the decline was an 18.8 percent sequential drop in VA purchase loans…Read More
Short Takes: $249 Million in Mortgage Payments at Risk? / Will Trump Order Fannie and Freddie to Stand Down? / Assessing Mark Calabria / Lovell Buys ATTOM / LoanLogics Hires Mortgage Tech Vet January 8, 2019 Namrata Bhatia, Brandon Ivey, and Paul Muolo Overwhelmingly, industry analysts expect Mark Calabria to shake things up at the Federal Housing Finance Agency – that is, once he’s approved by the full Senate. Read More
Non-Agency MBS Issuance Nearly Doubled in 2018 January 7, 2019 Brandon Ivey JPMorgan Chase and Redwood Trust are the dominant issuers of non-agency MBS…Read More
loanDepot Hires Caliber Executive John Bianchi to Head National Sales January 7, 2019 Paul Muolo loanDepot founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh: “We believe in distributed retail…”Read More
MBS/ABS Market Ends Year with Lackluster Production. Weakest Reading in Five Years January 4, 2019 John Bancroft The biggest reason for the slump: the decline in single-family MBS production by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie…Read More
What We’re Hearing: Top Production Exec Ready to Depart? / The Mel Watt Era at the FHFA is About to End / Will IBM do to Promontory What it Did to Seterus? / Ugly Mortgage Job Numbers / Selling Ditech Shares / Dynex Hires Dave Stevens as a Director January 4, 2019 Paul Muolo One former Fannie Mae executive familiar with Seterus opined that IBM likely received “pennies” compared to what it invested in Seterus... Read More
A Not-So-Pretty 4Q18 for GSE MBS Issuance January 3, 2019 John Bancroft Fannie and Freddie continued to see a slippage in the purchase market…Read More
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