The VA panel presented several “egregious loan” scenarios involving reviews of several mortgages from 2016 in which lenders were required to sign indemnification agreements.

The plan to raise the standard has been met with hostility by many in the residential real estate industry, said Matthew Pointon, an economist at Capital Economics.

Although it lost money on an accounting basis, its funds from operations, or FFO, came in at $78.2 million compared to $64.3 million for 1Q16.

Montgomery currently serves as vice chairman of The Collingwood Group, a consultancy which he co-founded in 2009.

Alterra Home Loans hired Tom Middleton as senior vice president of business development and national expansion. He joins the nonbank from On Q Financial...

Several trade groups, investors and analysts quickly issued their take on Watt’s comments, but there were some notables missing in action: Pershing Square and Fairholme.

“Our assessment indicates that this change would not impact the MBS markets,” Fannie Mae said.

The MSR package is top-heavy in Massachusetts receivables at 94 percent…

The securitization of income-property mortgages nosedived in the first quarter of 2017, with most of the downturn in the volatile non-agency sector, according to an Inside MBS & ABS analysis. A total of $48.29 billion of MBS backed by commercial properties was issued in the first quarter, down 27.7 percent from the previous period. Although production was down 6.1 percent from the same period in 2016, it was close to the average quarterly volume of $49.35 billion that the market has produced since the beginning of 2014. The average for the 2011-2013 period was just $32.00 billion. Average volume is...[Includes one data table]

The Lone Star MBS received AAA ratings with credit enhancement of 34.10 percent on the senior tranche.