Since mid-September, four nonprime-related M&As have either been announced or have come to light through market sources: Deephaven Mortgage’s acquisition by Pretium Partners; Redwood Trust’s purchase of CoreVest American Finance and Citadel Servicing’s takeover by HPS Investment Partners. And now the Luxury deal.
Originations are increasing, demand in the secondary market is strong and the interest rate premium on non-QMs is declining, helping to prompt more lending volume.
Calabria stressed the plan is process-based rather than calendar-driven. He also pointed out that the two mortgage giants will have to be adequately capitalized and make appropriate changes to their culture.
KBW on Ocwen: “While the company is setting up MSR [mortgage servicing rights] financing facilities, management noted returns on available MSR trended down, though the company did lower its targeted ROE [return on equity] on agency MSR to 8.5% from 9.5%."
“The purpose of this letter is to notify you of our findings, outline VA’s expectations regarding your efforts to cure noncompliance, detail what actions you might take and inform you of the actions VA will take if your curative efforts fail to bring the loans into compliance,” the correspondence reads…
“In the first quarter everybody was hating life,” said Michael Lau, CEO of Pingora Asset Management. “Now everybody is loving life. They have fat margins and origination pipelines are robust.”
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