FHFA-OIG Indictment in Baltimore Mortgage Fraud Case. Two men were sentenced for providing false information to mortgage lenders to enable buyers to qualify for 18 home mortgage loans in Baltimore that they could not afford. Sixteen of the 18 loans went into default, resulting in foreclosures and losses of about $1.2 million to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and certain mortgage lenders. Fitch: Fannie’s Loan Losses Slightly Lower Than Freddie’s for Some Cohorts. In an analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan-level loss data, Fitch Ratings concluded that, while similar, there are differences between loss severities among loans with similar profiles. Fannie disclosed its loan-level loss data in late July to
Both of the government-sponsored enterprises are on track to meet the 2015 risk-sharing goals established by the Federal Housing Finance Agency with a quarter of the year to spare. Officials at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FHFA said the GSEs will continue to work to expand the risk-sharing efforts, which are popular among many investors in the secondary market. At the ABS East conference produced by Information Management Network last week in Miami, Scott Smith, an associate director of capital policy at the FHFA, said he would like to see continued efforts to broaden the investor base for risk-sharing transactions. More than 160 investors have bought...
Freddie Mac reported that its first-time homebuyer business is growing and is on target to match its best year in the space since the beginning of the housing crisis. During the first half of 2015, lenders have delivered an average of 17,000 first-time homebuyer mortgages per month to the government-sponsored enterprise. That’s roughly the pace for last year but 25 percent higher than in 2013. Overall, the National Association of Realtors said...[Includes one data table]
The supply of home mortgage debt outstanding started growing again during the second quarter of 2015, thanks to relatively strong growth in retained portfolios, according to an Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of new data from the Federal Reserve and other sources. The Fed reported late last week that $9.901 trillion of single-family mortgage debt was outstanding as of the end of June. That was up 0.4 percent from March and represented the biggest supply of mortgage servicing since the third quarter of 2013. The servicing market had been shrinking...[Includes two data tables]
American Advisors Group ranked first among all reverse mortgage originators in the first half, funding $1.2 billion. None of the top 15 are depositories.
Loan officers, it seems, are more willing to work on agency-eligible mortgages because they know the transactions have a good chance of closing, but non-QMs are a different matter.
Despite the 90 percent estimate offered by Applegate, the government-sponsored enterprises’ use of the CSP – let alone the GSE single security – looks to be a ways off.
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