The overall number of loans declined as borrowers whose loans were not in forbearance took advantage of low interest rates to refinance. Ultimately, Fannie’s net forbearance rate only declined about 1.0% in June, WFS said.
In other words, in a market sized at roughly $2 trillion, and with total delinquencies measured at $218.9 billion (according to Ginnie’s website), the so called COVID-19 liquidity crisis never arrived...
MBA also urged the regulator to create guardrails to prevent any individual shareholder from gaining control of Fannie and Freddie after they’ve exited conservatorship…
Caliber is worried that if interest rates rise from current levels, the volume of prepayments and mortgage payoffs is likely to decline, which will reduce the cash available to fund servicing-advance obligations.
The agencies securitized almost $592 billion of single-family refi loans, a 17.8% increase from 2Q. Refis accounted for 64.7% of the market during the third quarter. However, purchase-mortgage activity increased more in percentage terms...
DBRS saw a relatively small 5.7% decline in MBS ratings from the first to the second quarter, and actually upped its ratings of expanded-credit mortgage MBS...
More importantly, the analyst noted, the council threatened to impose still stricter standards or designate the GSEs as systemically important financial institutions if the capital rule was materially softened.
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