New Residential has purchased several servicing portfolios over the past year, acquiring rights from CitiMortgage, Walter/Ditech and United Shore, among others.
“This new trove of documents conclusively shows that the net worth sweep was designed solely to boost Treasury’s coffers and prevent the GSEs from rebuilding capital or exiting conservatorship,” said Investors Unite, a shareholder rights group.
Fannie said that about 3 or 4 percent of DU applications with DTI ratios ranging from 45 percent to 50 percent had been deemed ineligible because they failed the overlay test…
New issuance of MBS backed by income-property mortgages during the second quarter rebounded from a lull in early 2017, according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS. A total of $51.03 billion of commercial mortgages were securitized in the second quarter, a gain of 12.1 percent from the first three months of 2017. That brought year-to-date commercial MBS issuance to $96.54 billion, 12.4 percent ahead of the pace set in 2016. But CMBS production was...[Includes one data table]
Loans collateralized by multifamily properties experienced the biggest increase in the delinquency rate among commercial property types during the month of June, rising 133 basis points to 4.10 percent, according to a new CMBS report from Moody’s Investors Service. But it may not be as bad, sector-wise, as it appears at first glance. “The difference was due mainly to two newly delinquent loans, both multifamily portfolios in the MLMT 2007-C1 transaction,” explained Kevin Fagan, a vice president and senior analyst with the ratings service. “Assuming these loans were current, the multifamily delinquency rate for June would be 2.57 percent.” Delinquency rates increased...
Wells Fargo remained the top producer of first-lien mortgages with a hefty 27.1 percent increase from the first quarter, gaining ground on all of its nearest competitors.