Is the great refi wave just about over?

The MBA believes that the Treasury Department – despite being the GSEs’ single biggest shareholder – has been absent on Fannie/Freddie reform since early 2011.

The numbers suggest that after seven quarters of complaints being received by the CFPB, mortgage lenders are getting a better handle on complaint resolution.

In 2012 single-family g-fees allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to collect $12.5 billion from its seller/servicers.

Mortgage Master continued its dominance in Massachusetts mortgage lending. Jumbo loan production swelled by 65 percent.

Mortgage firms issued $4.34 billion of non-agency jumbo MBS in the second quarter of 2013, with deals from five issuers, both quarterly highs in the new non-agency era.

Citigroup is becoming more aggressive in residential lending, especially in the jumbo space.

Republican members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit closely questioned Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Deputy Director Steven Antonakes last week over the degree to which the CFPB is collecting personally identifiable information from consumers. Many of the GOP subcommittee members were quick to invoke recent scandals involving the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden as further evidence of the need to...

As issuance of non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities has increased in recent quarters and conforming jumbo MBS issuance has remained relatively flat, the non-agency sector has started to account for a larger share of jumbo mortgage securitization. A total of $15.07 billion in jumbo MBS – mortgages with balances above the traditional conforming loan limit of $417,000 – was issued in the second quarter of 2013, according to the Inside Mortgage Finance MBS Database ... [Includes one data chart]

Rep. Jeb Hensarling this week provided a detailed blueprint for his vision of the MBS market that would replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a voluntary securitization platform that would be prohibited from providing any guaranties, government-backed or otherwise. The Texas Republican’s proposed National Mortgage Market Utility would be built from the work already underway at the government-sponsored enterprises to design a common securitization platform. Like the existing CSP project, which was assigned to the GSEs by their regulator, the NMMU would develop standards for servicing, pooling and securitizing home mortgages, as well as a “publicly accessible securitization outlet.” Hensarling’s proposed utility, part of his Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act, goes...