A spokesman for Ocwen said the company did not like the way the IMFnews story was being “interpreted.” After the story was published early Friday afternoon, Ocwen’s share price began to rise and continued to increase Monday.
Among those buying into MI stocks is Paulson & Co., the legendary hedge fund that made $15 billion by shorting publicly traded subprime firms via the ABX Index in the run-up to the housing bust.
Overall, the group reported a 5.8 percent increase in total mortgage banking income – which for some firms includes activity not captured in either production or servicing – during the fourth quarter.
Although some regulators have anxiety problems with nonbank servicers, Fannie Mae apparently does not. Meanwhile, a large mortgage vendor M&A deal could be revealed late Friday.
According to responses from real estate agents involved in 1,401 transactions in January, some 45 percent of purchase mortgages with private MI experienced a delayed closing. And 42 percent of FHA purchase mortgages experienced a delay in closing.
Although some industry groups said it is too soon to get into another massive overhaul, others pointed to the forest of overlapping and confusing documents as a good place to start.
The GSE chief credited Fannie’s strong performance to a wide array of factors, including improving home prices and lower delinquencies, but also tighter underwriting standards which have created a pristine book of business for the company.
Mortgage-industry veteran John Robbins has launched a new mortgage cooperative that plans to bundle mortgages for sale into the secondary market and eventually form a conduit through which it hopes to securitize non-QM loans. “We’re going after best execution,” Robbins told Inside MBS & ABS. Of course, the venture – aptly titled The Mortgage Collaborative – is...
Bank and thrift MBS holdings fell by 4.6 percent during 2013, and by the end of the year, they were down 7.8 percent from the all-time high of $1.634 trillion reached at the end of March 2012.
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