Rohit Chopra’s confirmation as CFPB director prompted a surge of statements from industry stakeholders. The sentiments include requests for action and compliments.
A lawsuit filed by Oakland, CA, in 2015, alleging that discriminatory lending by Wells Fargo eventually prompted a decrease in property tax collections, was ultimately decided in favor of the lender.
Prime jumbos and loans eligible for sale to the GSEs helped propel the non-agency MBS market to a post-2010 record in the third quarter of 2021. Issuance of expanded-credit MBS lagged. (Includes data chart.)
The supply of mortgages for non-agency MBS is expected to decline, leading to concerns that industry participants might loosen underwriting standards to prop up volumes.
PennyMac and United Wholesale Mortgage hiked their loan limits for GSE mortgages well before the FHFA is scheduled to announce the official limits for 2022. The move will limit some of the flow of mortgages into the non-agency jumbo market.
AGMIT sold off the last of its investments in commercial mortgages in September, with plans to increase investments in non-QMs and other non-agency mortgages.