According to an informational circular on Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, some of the top executives at the firm used to work for Southstar Funding in Sandy Spring, GA.
Business is booming at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac thanks to a healthy surge in refinance activity, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of mortgage-backed securities issued by the two government-sponsored enterprises during the first quarter of 2015. Fannie and Freddie issued a total of $189.92 billion of single-family MBS during the first three months of the year. That was up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014, and it marked the biggest output for the GSEs since the third quarter of 2013. Early 2015 was leaps and bounds ahead of the pace set during the same period last year, which marked a 14-year low in mortgage production. All of the oomph came...[Includes three data charts]
Most analysts are confident that private mortgage insurance companies will not see their ratings downgraded due to increased competition from the FHA as well as new capital requirements for private MIs proposed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. But Zacks Investment Research, a research firm that ranks and rates investment products for investors, went against the grain and downgraded MGIC Investment Corp. by two notches due exactly to those reasons. While private MIs have been gaining market share in the last couple of years, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. and its business competitors will find...
The refinance program for performing, underwater Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages staggered to a five-year low during 2014, but government officials are thinking about keeping it on life support for another year. The Home Affordable Refinance Program is slated to expire at the end of 2015. Although the Federal Housing Finance Agency has barnstormed around the country trying to drum up business, activity in the program has fallen steadily since ... [Includes two data charts]
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