It appears – for now – that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt will serve out the remainder of his term, despite a recent public airing of sexual harassment allegations levied against him by senior advisor Simone Grimes.
It appears that the Senate is ready to tackle industry complaints about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pilot programs. The Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee announced this week that they will hold a hearing on Oct. 18 to discuss the oversight of pilot programs at the government-sponsored enterprises. …
Ginnie Mae issuance of single-family mortgage-backed securities rode a homebuying wave during the third quarter of 2018, according to a new Inside FHA/VA Lending ranking and analysis. Ginnie issuers produced $105.63 billion of new MBS backed by forward mortgages during the July-September cycle, a 7.1 percent increase from the second quarter. That brought year-to-date production to $296.88 billion – down 11.3 percent from the first nine months of 2017. Purchase mortgages provided the boost for the Ginnie market. Some $75.69 billion of FHA and VA purchase mortgages were pooled in Ginnie MBS in the third quarter, a sturdy 13.1 percent increase from the previous period. Purchase loans accounted for 75.1 percent of FHA and VA loans securitized in the third quarter, compared to 64.7 percent for all of last year. Although production of these loans has gone up since the first quarter, year-to-date volume ... [Charts]
A few months back, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered Fannie Me and Freddie to end their involvement in SFR financial arrangements. However, any deals in progress were allowed to close...
As prospects wane in warehouse lending, some commercial banks are pondering a move into financing mortgage servicing rights but have a major concern: Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage giant that’s in the midst of a $1 billion pilot program. During a recent Congressional oversight hearing, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt for the first time revealed the size of the MSR-financing pilot, saying it’s needed because nonbanks “do not have access to ...
Mortgage insurance companies reported they expect to be in compliance with updates to private MI eligibility requirements for doing business with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that were released late last week. The final version of PMIERs 2.0 will take effect on March 31, 2019, and analysts agree that other than a few tweaks, they aren’t terribly different than the original proposal. Since 2015, the U.S. Mortgage Insurers said, PMIERs have nearly doubled the amount of capital each mortgage insurer ...
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