Is the industry happy about today’s announcement? Some praised it but one veteran lobbyist quipped: “It’s better than nothing but it’s pretty thin gruel.”

Of course, early this spring, the FHFA, in trying to aid consumers economically impacted by the pandemic, requested that servicers provide forbearance.

At yearend, consumers owed $11.168 trillion on their first liens, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, which means the dollar volume of residential loans under forbearance now totals $664.5 billion.

Other non-agency MBS in the pipeline include offerings backed by reperforming mortgages...

Another day goes by, and more pleas to Uncle Sam to fix the MBS liquidity problem. What will it take?

The active non-QM funders include ACC Mortgage, A&D Mortgage, First National Bank of America, Newfi Lending and Silvergate Bank. (Silvergate, up until recently, was also a warehouse provider of non-QM products.)

Impac had hoped to resume lending again after a shutdown of two weeks. But that was then...

Overall, mortgage citations accounted for only 8% of total gripes...

Ginnie MBS data show an increase of 72,224 loans recorded as 30 days past due from February to March. Some 56,266 of those newly delinquent loans were FHA-insured.

Only 11.22% of purchase-money mortgages purchased by the GSEs in the first quarter had FICO credit scores below 700. That was down from 12.05% in the fourth quarter and 14.66% a year ago.