The Community Mortgage Lenders of America said the bill strikes a balance of maintaining safe lending while freeing up resources so more consumers can obtain a mortgage.

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Bids on both packages are due later in the week.

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Wells Fargo handled 20.2 percent of the $841.42 million in agency mortgages outstanding at the end of the second quarter of 2016 that had interest rates between 4.510 percent and 5.000 percent.

State regulators had removed a clause from previous forms which said information from the submitting lender was “to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.”

“Most real estate agents say high loan-to-value ratio mortgages are readily available, especially for homebuyers with good credit,” said Tom Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys.

With the possibility of investors transferring non-agency servicing rights away from Ocwen Financial, Altisource Portfolio Solution has put an emphasis on providing services to other companies.

Much of the increase in Impac Mortgage Holdings' originations was from the retail channel.

Industry experts agree that the commercial MBS market is not going to live up to expectations of $100 billion of issuance this year, but they are hopeful the market will rebound after the industry fully implements the Dodd-Frank Act risk-retention rules that take effect Dec. 24, 2016. According to Kenneth Cheng, managing director of CMBS ratings services for Morningstar Credit Ratings, there is much uncertainty in the CMBS market about the actual impact of the risk-retention requirements. “I think everybody has agreed that it will be a negative impact – it’s just the magnitude of that impact that is uncertain,” he told Inside MBS & ABS this week. “It’s going to drive up the cost of CMBS – how much is anybody’s guess.” Also, as the cost of issuing CMBS increases, profit margins will...