The senators said they find it distressing that such a large fee would be introduced “with no consultation with Congress and no notice to external stakeholders.”
CBO, in a report that received little notice, based its estimates on a variety of assumptions about the companies’ retained earnings, capital requirements and more...
Retail-originated refi production was particularly strong at the GSEs, climbing 160.5% from the first to the second quarter. By contrast, deliveries of retail refi loans rose 30.5% at Ginnie Mae, where total MBS issuance increased more modestly...
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”…
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