Ocwen experienced the greatest percentage decrease in average monthly complaint volume from the first quarter of 2015 to 1Q16. Then again, Ocwen's servicing portfolio has been shrinking.
Subservicing firms now process roughly 16.3 percent of all home mortgages in the U.S., the highest reading since Inside Mortgage Finance began publishing these data two years ago.
Actual repurchases or replacements were substantially below the $541.8 million in buyback requests that were withdrawn by the GSEs during the first quarter…
The Congressman noted that outside of a study done in 2011, the administration has had little engagement with Congress on a path toward ending the conservatorships, which are almost eight years old...
Late last week, the Structured Finance Industry Group, a securitization trade association, put out its long-awaited compliance review documentation related to the CFPB’s integrated disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. SFIG said its RMBS 3.0 TRID Compliance Review Scope documentation was put together by representatives of third-party review firms across the industry and its own RMBS 3.0 Due Diligence, Data and Disclosure Working Group.The material addresses TRID compliance issues on non-agency mortgages uncovered during reviews by due diligence providers. Under the standards, loans that would have received grades of C or D due to TRID exceptions can sometimes receive B grades if errors are corrected. The document was created to ...
The level of repurchase activity at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to decline during the first quarter, helped along by the resolution of older buyback cases, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures by the two. Lenders repurchased or replaced just $315.0 million of mortgages – or otherwise indemnified the GSEs – during the first quarter, the analysis reveals. That was the lowest quarterly repurchase total since Fannie and Freddie, along with other asset securitizers, began filing repurchase disclosures with the SEC back in early 2012. First-quarter repurchases were down 11.8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015 and 35.9 percent below the total for the first three months of last year.