Panelists at an Urban Institute event this week concluded that there can’t be a housing finance reform discussion without including the FHA. Carol Galante, former FHA commissioner during the Obama administration, said it’s important to make sure changes to the government-sponsored enterprises don’t unintentionally impact the FHA.

tressler@imfpubs.com Homeowners and appraisers are closer to seeing eye-to-eye on home valuations than at any time in the last two years, according to new data from Quicken Loans. “Home appraisals were an average of 0.5 percent lower than what owners expected in December,” the lender said, “These two data points have moved closer together since November, when appraised values were 0.67 percent lower than homeowners’ estimates, and far improved from one year ago when there was…

The top five sellers to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted a combined 14.1 percent increase in volume from the third to the fourth quarter, boosting their share of the market to 38.4 percent.

“The CFPB cannot fulfill its core functions without collecting personally identifiable information,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA.

Redwood Trust is preparing two prime jumbo MBS, JPMorgan Chase has one of its own and an affiliate of Caliber Home Loans plans to issue a nonprime deal.

The origination of reverse mortgages fell by 7.3 percent on a sequential basis in the third quarter of 2017 in the wake of changes made to the program by FHA.

CoreLogic noted that early-stage delinquencies continued to increase in October in some areas hit by hurricanes.

Kristen Sutton Mork will leave her post as staff director of the House Financial Services Committee to become chief of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will impact home sales and financials at National Mortgage Insurance Corp., among many other areas.

Rep. Hensarling said Mork will assume her new role in the coming weeks.