Break out the smelling salts: Freedom Mortgage bought RoundPoint after all...

Johnson, once an aide to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, believes the CFPB overstepped regarding MSAs...

However, there’s a catch to the Ginnie number. Servicers of government product, especially depositories with a balance sheet, increasingly are buying delinquent FHA and VA loans out of MBS pools as a way to save money and possibly rehabilitate them down the road.

Meanwhile, the tightening bug is loose again. The broker division of PennyMac Financial Services just told its outside loan officers, “Effective for all conventional loans with applications received on or after August 14, 2020, PennyMac is limiting self-employed borrowers to a maximum of 70% LTV/CLTV for all transactions”…

The credit facility will be used for general corporate purposes...

According to Dave Stevens, a former FHA commissioner, DPA provided by government entities, such as Chenoa, is one of the only scalable options to help those without the means to purchase a property.

At the very least, refi lenders see their profit margins suffering because of the new edict. But will the GSEs (and the FHFA) hear their pleas?

The CFPB brought just 11 enforcement actions in 2018...

But can MBA and other outraged trade groups do anything to stop this new LLPA? “We hope to rescind it,” said MBA's Bob Broeksmit...

For HUD, the central question boils down to this: Will the MMIF have enough cash on hand to weather what could turn out to be a delinquency tsunami on the FHA book of business?