KBW believes the Freddie announcement could improve valuations for mortgage servicing rights “as the market reduces its expectations for potential servicing advance costs.”
The new policy applies to borrowers who can afford to resume making their regular monthly mortgage payments, but are unable to cover the remittances they missed during forbearance...
In addition, Fannie and Freddie have helped reduce face-to-face interactions during the closing process by expanding the use of powers of attorney and remote online notarizations.
If servicers’ cash crunch becomes critical, the onus of creating a liquidity facility would fall on the Federal Reserve and Treasury, not on the FHFA, agency Director Mark Calabria said.
At the end of the forbearance period, mortgage servicers will provide homeowners several options for making up missed payments, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reassured borrowers.
Of course, early this spring, the FHFA, in trying to aid consumers economically impacted by the pandemic, requested that servicers provide forbearance.
In an industry update, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods predicts it may still take some time before the establishment of an emergency funding facility for residential servicers with MBS payments coming due.
The $13 million Milbank contract, which follows the agency’s February selection of Houlihan Lokey as its capital markets advisor, suggests the FHFA remains committed to recap-and-release.
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