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Paul Muolo

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Thanks to Booming Online Retail Sales, Certain Malls With Departing ‘Anchor Tenants’ Are Suffering

February 9, 2017
Paul Muolo
How bad is it? Since 2010, liquidations amounting to $3.89 billion led to $2.88 billion in CMBS losses, a 74.0 percent loss severity.
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Radian Picks Another Lending Executive as its New CEO: Rick Thornberry

February 9, 2017
Paul Muolo
Spencer Stuart, headhunting firm, aided the MI in its search for a new CEO. A few months back former Freddie Mac executive Bruce Witherell was approached about the job, but passed.
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BlackRock Executive Craig Phillips Could Play a Role in GSE Reform

February 9, 2017
Paul Muolo
Phillips, managing director of financial markets/client solutions at BlackRock, is well known in MBS circles for his early days at First Boston…
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Short Takes: Time to Sell GSE ‘Juniors’? / Bruce Berkowitz, True Believer / What Fannie, Freddie and Sears Have in Common / Whatever Happened to Sears Mortgage? / Texas Capital Accumulating MSR Assets / First Franklin Settles FHA Charges

February 9, 2017
Paul Muolo
Besides the GSEs, one Fairholme’s most speculative investments is Sears Holdings Corp., the struggling retailer…
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Mortgage Hiring Increased in December, but Several Lenders are Taking a ‘Wait and See’ Approach

February 8, 2017
Paul Muolo
CMG Mortgage founder and CEO Chris George said that when it comes to hiring he's mostly in a "holding pattern" right now, with exceptions...
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Growing Concern that Trump’s Tax Cut Could Hammer Fannie and Freddie

February 8, 2017
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
The DTAs are available to the GSEs as future deductions against taxable income. A reduction in the corporate tax rate would reduce existing DTAs for not just Fannie and Freddie but for other U.S. businesses as well.
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Short Takes: Fix & Flip Lender Targets Multifamily Sector / Branching Out Into Florida / No Word on Carson and His Deputy / New Rez Tests ABS Market / Fed General Counsel Alvarez Announces Retirement

February 8, 2017
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
The full Senate could vote on the Ben Carson nomination next week...
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Blackstone in Takeover Talks with ‘Fix & Flip’ Lender Jordan Capital

February 7, 2017
Paul Muolo
Over the past two years, the Wall Street giant has purchased a handful of nonbank lenders, including Gateway Funding...
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Flagstar Makes a Bold Move: Agrees to Buy Stearns’ Correspondent Platform

February 7, 2017
Paul Muolo
With its consent order in the rear-view, look for Flagstar to do more deals, industry advisors told IMFnews...
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Short Takes: Blackstone’s Tentacles / MBA Sides with PHH in CFPB Case / Banks Might Ease GSE Standards / The ‘Silver Bullet’ to Replace LOs with Machines / Stonegate Hires SunTrust Executive

February 7, 2017
Paul Muolo and Thomas Ressler
Correspondent lending accounts for 21.4 percent of Stearns’ total origination volume, based on fourth quarter figures from Inside Mortgage Finance…
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