The eventual goal of the project is to have the GSEs issue fully interchangeable securities.

The concerns among participants in the jumbo MBS market regarding the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule might have been much ado about nothing. A new report from Moody’s Investors Service suggests that TRID violations won’t materially increase losses in jumbo MBS. The rating service said third-party due diligence reviews will identify loans in violation of TRID, and lenders and aggregators will be able to cure many TRID violations before the mortgages are placed in jumbo MBS. Three jumbo MBS have included...

Recently, rumors were making the rounds in Washington that Fannie and Freddie might be pondering an increase in their net worth minimums for seller/servicers...

According to the FHFA, both GSEs already have extensive internal procedures for vetting any business change that could affect prepay speeds…

The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued interim final rules last week on fraud and civil penalties that are open for comment through Aug. 1.The interim final rule amends rules of practice and procedure and other agency regulations to adjust each civil money penalty within its jurisdiction to account for inflation. This was done pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements of 2015. FHFA noted that the Adjustment Improvements Act provides that the initial catch-up adjustment must be implemented by an interim final rule.

TRID errors have been costly with some lenders forced to sell perfectly good mortgages at a loss in the secondary market…

On occasion, HUD staff denied or sat on IG requests for information…

In general, this is not a pretty time for mortgage-related stocks, even though interest rates are at an all-time low.

Some lenders are generating extra revenue by providing a valuable service to real estate agents: providing leads on potential homebuyers. Real estate agents report mixed feelings about the services offered by Quicken Loans and others, according to a recent survey conducted by Campbell Surveys and sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance. Interactions between lenders and real estate agents typically relate to homebuyer referrals by agents to lenders. However, some lenders also sell homebuyer leads to real estate agents. “There is...

Warehouse lenders that supply credit to nonbank originators have seen usage rates and new line requests increase significantly in the past few weeks, thanks in part to plunging interest rates brought about by the “Brexit” vote. David Frase, president of warehouse lending for Southwest Bank, said, “Any warehouse bank that isn’t seeing record volume is probably malfunctioning in some way. We’ve been pretty darn busy.” Other warehouse managers have reported...