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Paul Muolo

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Origination Profit Margins Stay Ugly. Is Relief on the Way?

May 7, 2018
Paul Muolo
One consultant said he’s conducted 14 warehouse reviews on lenders this year with 11 of them turning a profit and three losing money.
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Figuring Out Who Might Succeed Mel Watt as FHFA Director – It’s Complicated…

May 4, 2018
Paul Muolo
Also, there’s a growing fear that in the absence of Congressional action, a free-market leaning Treasury Department, in tandem with a Trump-appointed FHFA director, might alter the way GSEs operate...
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$5.1 Billion of GSE Mortgage Servicing Rights Up for Grabs

May 4, 2018
Paul Muolo
The average loan size is $285,547 with the average LTV coming in at 70.0 percent.
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What We’re Hearing: The New MBA CEO Will Be… / A ‘November Surprise’ for GSE Reform? / Is it 10 Years Already? / What ‘Mr. Market’ Thinks of Fannie and Freddie / GSE CRT Deals, a Great Return? / NewDay in the Clear?

May 4, 2018
Paul Muolo
Here’s a prediction: GSE reform legislation will only pass if, and when, the Democrats take control of the House, Senate and the White House.
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Fannie Mae Has a Blowout 1Q18, Will Make a $938M Dividend Payment to Treasury

May 3, 2018
Carisa Chappell and Paul Muolo
Come June, Fannie Mae will cut a new dividend check to Uncle Sam...
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Nation’s Largest ‘mREIT’ Annaly Pounces Again, Agrees to Buy MTGE

May 3, 2018
Paul Muolo
Roughly two years ago, Annaly bought Hatteras Financial, Winston-Salem, NC, in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.
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NAR Sees $6.5B in GSE Profits and Asks the FHFA for Reductions in G-Fees, More

May 3, 2018
Paul Muolo
The NAR is hoping that a cut in g-fees (and LLPAs) ultimately will be passed down to consumers – who buy homes from NAR’s members.
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Short Takes: Investors Unite: Mel Watt is the Only One ‘Tuned into Reality’ / Strong 1Q18 Results for Nationstar / Loan Production Not so Bad Either / Finance of America Wants Brokers to Call it This / Correction on New Day

May 3, 2018
Paul Muolo
Investors Unite: "We’re in trouble if the secret plan for GSE reform rests on axing the only public official who is actually tuned into reality…”
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Short Takes: What’s in a Name? / First, We Change the Name in the AP Style Book / CRL Wants FHA Changes / Fannie Tech Official Departs for Vendor

May 2, 2018
Paul Muolo and Yemeng Yang
CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney: “I don’t know why we call it the CFPB; that is not the name of the organization..."
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Ocwen Posts a (Small) Profit, but Revenues Keep Heading South

May 2, 2018
Paul Muolo
Ocwen has tried to mend its ways, noting in the new report: “We have now resolved all of the state cease and desist orders (but not all of the legal actions) taken against us….”
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