Bank of America appears to have resolved a longstanding dispute with Fannie Mae over loan repurchases but will not begin selling more loans to the GSE.
Depository institutions managed to trim the volume of mortgage loans they serviced for other investors during the third quarter of 2012, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call report data.
In an email message to his members on Friday, Mortgage Bankers Association president David Stevens noted that the fiscal cliff deal does not substantially limit the mortgage interest deduction but it does phase out itemized deductions for certain higher income households.
Fannie Mae is working on building an in-house unit to value mortgage servicing rights, according to industry officials whove been briefed on the GSE's plans.
Although 10 servicers have agreed to shell out $8.5 billion as part of the OCC/Federal Reserve foreclosure settlement, it wont be known for up to a month exactly how much it will cost each bank.
A federal judge recently approved an $11.25 million settlement for investors who purchased $5.26 billion of non-agency MBS issued by jumbo lender Thornburg Mortgage. The lawsuit alleged false and misleading disclosures by Thornburg.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has reinstated a lawsuit that could place a widowed spouse of a deceased reverse mortgage borrower at risk of foreclosure.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to unveil its long-anticipated 'Qualified Mortgage rule this evening to certain parties with an official release coming Thursday morning, industry officials told Inside Mortgage Finance.