The frothy prices being offered for MSRs are beginning to cool somewhat. “There’s definitely a tighter range on bids lately,” said Matt Maurer, managing director of MountainView Servicing Group.
Paul Rozo, who runs PRMG, told us that he is not a big fan of call centers and that every LO in his organization is a “hunter,” a sales person “who relies on referral business and/or handling their own marketing."
Buyback resolutions declined by 28 percent from the second quarter, even as the government-sponsored enterprises wrapped up large-scale settlements with a handful of their largest sellers.
Many mortgage originators and aggregators say they would use some form of recording, either audio or audio/video, to help with QM compliance and fighting potential lawsuits.
In its successful civil suit against Bank of America, DOJ estimated that the two GSEs lost $850 million from thousands of loans acquired through Countrywide's “Hustle” program.
According to Alice Alvey of Indecomm Mortgage U, “many shops are reassessing originator comp plans for January 2014 to adjust to the changing margins and seize the opportunity to blame it on the change in the law."
The risk-retention rule re-proposed by federal regulators in September needs significant adjustments, according to issuers of collateralized loan obligations and asset-backed commercial paper. Investors are largely happy with the re-proposed rule, and issuers concede that the re-proposed rule significantly improved on the rule initially proposed by federal regulators in 2011. The Dodd-Frank Act requires federal regulators to establish risk-retention requirements for certain securities that don’t meet qualifying standards. Issuers of such securities will generally be required to retain at least 5.0 percent of the risk from such issuance. “We remain concerned...
There was no surprise about why. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae securitized a total of $41.71 billion of refinance loans in October, down 22 percent from the previous month.
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