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.
Florida, Texas, Virginia and Georgia were all relatively MI-rich, with insured loans accounting for more than 60.0% of total agency business in those states.
Mike Fontaine, CFO of Plaza Home Mortgage, said servicers can recognize significant benefits from advance financing. “When you have a Ginnie portfolio, servicing advances can be a rather large cash drain,” he said. “If you have the ability to finance that piece of it, it will provide more liquidity.”
The trade groups are calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to either remove FHA certifications or replace them with a straightforward lender acknowledgement of key requirements based on loan eligibility…
The robust second quarter brought year-to-date agency MBS issuance to $562.02 billion, just 1.3% below the level reached in the first six months of last year.
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