“The market wrestled with some uncertainty throughout the spring shopping season, but mortgage rates declining from their mid-spring peak has added some extra heat as we head into an already toasty summer,” said Mischa Fisher, chief economist at Zillow.
“I understand how the Department of Housing and Urban Development and FHA operate behind the scenes, how decisions are made, and what it takes to successfully close complex financing transactions from both sides of the table,” Frank Cassidy wrote on Linkedin.
Some usually active issuers had no issuance in the second quarter, including Citigroup, Bayview Asset Management, Radian Mortgage Securities and Nomura Securities.
CHLA suggested the facility be modeled after the pass-through assistance program Ginnie launched in 2020 to support servicers facing liquidity shortfalls due to pandemic-related borrower forbearances.