Congress should complete bipartisan housing finance reform during the two year term that begins in January, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin...
If Congress is unable to pass housing finance reform, Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the Treasury Department, said on Thursday that the Treasury will “look at administrative options.”
The spring homebuying season fueled a relatively modest increase in production of Ginnie Mae single-family mortgage-backed securities during the second quarter of 2018, according to a new Inside FHA/VA Lending ranking and analysis. Lenders issued $98.66 billion of Ginnie MBS backed by forward mortgages during the April-May cycle. That was up 6.6 percent from the first three months of the year, but 2018 continued to lag behind the pace set in 2017 by 10.7 percent. Given current trends, annual Ginnie MBS issuance in 2018 could fall short of the $400 billion mark for the first time since 2014. The flow of FHA and VA purchase mortgages was up a solid 23.7 percent from the first to the second quarter, bringing the total for the first half of the year to $121.01 billion. However, that was down 4.7 percent from the same period in 2017. Ginnie securitized $75.02 billion of FHA purchase loans in the ... [Charts]
The Federal Housing Finance Agency and mortgage lender groups are raising concerns about the new California data privacy law set to take effect in 2020, saying it doesn’t take into account the impact on mortgage lending.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that will determine whether non-judicial foreclosures are subject to protections provided by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Lower courts have split on the issue, causing problems for servicers and borrowers.
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