Treasury’s “Third Amendment” to the PSPA – which replaced the quarterly GSE dividend payment with a “net worth sweep” of all company profits – was the culmination of a calculated administration effort, according to former Solicitor General Ted Olson.
The HUD chief told Hispanic real estate professionals that in today’s market, mortgage credit is too hard to obtain for consumers with low credit scores.
The rating service singles out Ocwen Financial, Nationstar Mortgage, Walter Investment Management, Quicken Loans, Provident Funding and PennyMac Loan Services, all of which have significantly increased their MSR portfolios.
The starting salary for the CEO is said to be about $450,000 plus benefits, which is roughly double what the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mel Watt, earns.
An industry source said lenders in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario housing market are gearing up to petition HUD to recalculate the FHA loan limits in those areas.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader has spent years demanding satisfaction for GSE shareholders from the Obama administration, regulators and members of Congress.
The CFPB last week initiated an administrative action against PHH Mortgage, accusing the firm of participating in a multi-million-dollar kickback scheme involving captive mortgage insurance reinsurance. The regulator said an investigation it conducted showed “that when PHH originated mortgages, it referred consumers to mortgage insurers with which it partnered. In exchange for this referral, these insurers purchased ‘reinsurance’ from PHH’s subsidiaries.” The bureau continued, “PHH took the reinsurance fees as kickbacks, in violation...
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