Lenders have complained about misleading and confusing labels when self-reporting loan defects…

“By contrast, the 2017 HECM portfolio has a negative capital ratio of 19.84 percent and a negative economic net worth of $14.5 billion,” HUD said in its summary.

Upon Cordray’s announcement, Rep. Hensarling declared: “We are long overdue for new leadership at the CFPB, a rogue agency that has done more to hurt consumers than help them…”

Also likely to pass: a bill that would exempt from property appraisal requirements a mortgage of $250,000 or less if it appears on the loan creditor’s balance sheet for at least three years…

PIMCO also has been buying non-agency mortgages, holding the paper in one of the funds it manages.

However, a source familiar with the matter stressed that the GSE is merely considering a construction-to-perm product and nothing more.

Keep in mind, that one of the first things HUD did under Trump was to kill a planned MIP reduction...

The common thread in both cases is that Ocwen and PHH similarly assert that the CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional.

KBW estimates that if the corporate tax rate falls, Fannie and Freddie, combined, would have to fork over to Treasury an estimated $13 billion to $19 billion…

Maybe a REIT is the way to go in nonprime...