According to new figures released by Black Knight, mortgage prepayments declined by 7.5% in June despite mortgage rates being under the 4.0% threshold. The data analytics firm said it was the first decline in prepays in five months. Go figure…
Lending Tree is not an originator as such, but acts as a middleman between originators and funders. Its menu includes not only residential mortgages but auto and business loans, credit cards and student debt.
Although it was a relatively strong quarter for the company, the depository disclosed a $30 million “partial” charge tied to the failure of Live Well Financial, a Richmond, VA-based reverse mortgage lender that closed its doors in early May.
This is the third deal from WAMCO this year, following a $945.5 million transaction in May and a $285.6 million bond in February. The company brought out only one deal last year.
The figures are not adjusted for seasonal factors, and FHA/VA default rates often trend lower in the first quarter. FHA home equity conversion mortgages are not included in the data.
Back in early June, the share price of Fannie/Freddie common was rallying, reaching $3.16 (for the former) and $3.07 for the latter. If you had bought in at those prices, today you’d be looking at losses of 23.1% and 24.7%, respectively.
Banks and other lenders typically hire third-party collectors to recoup debt or sell the accounts to debt buyers. There are approximately 9,330 debt collectors/buyers in the U.S., said the bureau.
The biggest chunk of the insured market was loans with private MI coverage: $78.32 billion in the second quarter, a 49.3% increase from the previous period. That broadened the private MI footprint to 42.0% of the insured agency market, up from its relatively low 41.7% share in the first quarter.
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