The Government Accountability Office wants federal regulators responsible for reviewing the qualified mortgage and qualified residential mortgage rules to make sure they consider specific metrics and analytic methods. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the other federal agencies are slated to issue a review of the QM rule in January. The review of the QRM standard, part of a mortgage-securitization rule, won’t happen until 2019. So far, the regulatory agencies have identified...
FHA/VA lender Castle & Cooke Mortgage is embarking on a major expansion that could boost their standing in the government-backed market if things work out as planned. The Salt Lake City-based retail lender is in the midst of an aggressive expansion plan to be in 48 states by the end of 2016, according to Adam Thorpe, who was named president and chief operating officer in late 2014. C&C’s government-backed lending activities are mostly in the West with licenses to operate in 18 states. Recently the company, which entered the mortgage market in 2005, opened a new branch office in Anaheim, CA, bringing to 36 the number of C&C branch offices across the country. Orange County and the Southern California housing market are among the priciest in the nation, and the high demand and lower inventory in those areas can be good for government and ...
If the pace continues over the second half of the year – and strong consumer demand for apartments suggests it will – 2015 would become the best year ever in agency multifamily MBS.
Servicing of VA loans securitized by Ginnie Mae increased in the second quarter of 2015 even as servicing of FHA-backed mortgage securities fell over the same period, according to an analysis of Ginnie Mae data. Ginnie VA servicing outstanding, which totaled $332.4 billion, was up 2.8 percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter and up 9.0 percent year over year. Wells Fargo maintained its huge lead as the largest servicer of securitized VA loans with a total of $101.1 billion, down slightly from the prior quarter and from the same period a year ago. Ginnie data show Wells ending the quarter with a 30.4 percent share of VA servicing outstanding. USAA Federal Savings Bank lagged far behind Wells in second place with 6.1 percent of total VA servicing outstanding, and that was up 7.1 percent from the previous quarter. Third-ranked PennyMac Corp. increased its ... [ 2 charts ]
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