Dan Perl, who runs Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, said he woke up Monday morning and immediately cut his rates by 25 basis points across the board.
Commercial banks and savings institutions kept increasing their stake in agency mortgage-backed securities during the second quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.
Two more long-running legacy MBS lawsuits were resolved last week after defendants Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank separately agreed to settle with plaintiffs.
Fannie Mae on Thursday unveiled that Lone Star (LSF9 Mortgage Holdings) was the sole winning bidder on its second sale of non-performing mortgages. The auction was marketed in late July and is expected to settle Sept. 25.
On Wednesday, Freddie Mac announced that it guaranteed its second multifamily small balance loan securitization. The government-sponsored enterprise expects to guarantee approximately $109 billion in SB Certificates and plans to price them next week.
The Mortgage Bankers Association urged the Basel Committee this week to abandon its “overly simplistic” proposal to add onto institutional balance sheets layers of risk-based capital for interest rate risk.
Despite former Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Ed DeMarco's call for comprehensive reform of the nation's housing finance system and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the analysts at Compass Point Research & Trading remain convinced "that there is neither the legislative capacity nor political will to address housing finance reform in this Congress."
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