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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: Mortgage Interest Deduction Could be Neutered / Trump Getting Close on Pam Patenaude for HUD Deputy Post / DocMagic Posts Strong Growth / Chimera Busy with Seasoned MBS / Fannie Mae Official Leaves for Due Diligence Firm

April 5, 2017
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
It appears the Trump White House is once again seriously considering Pam Patenaude to be the deputy HUD secretary...
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Origination of IO Mortgages Spiked by Almost 37 Percent in 2016

April 4, 2017
Brandon Ivey
PHH Mortgage, which is restructuring its operations, was the top ranked interest-only lender in 2016…
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Prime Non-Agency MBS Bounces Back in 1Q17

April 3, 2017
Brandon Ivey
Just two firms – Redwood Trust and JPMorgan Chase – continued to dominate jumbo issuance in the first quarter…
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Deephaven Mortgage Preparing a $223 Million Nonprime MBS

April 3, 2017
Brandon Ivey
Deephaven operates solely as a secondary market buyer of whole loans...
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Short Takes: Fixing the GSEs: A Slam Dunk? / ‘Abundant’ Bipartisan Agreement? Huh? / How Rep. Jeb Gets There / Seller-Financing for Altisource / Paul Miller Departs FBR

April 3, 2017
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
We've an opinion or two from mortgage lobbyists that Rep. Hensarling might be open to some type of government guaranty on MBS, but how he might agree to such an animal has yet to be revealed…
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Shelter Growth Issues its Second Nonprime MBS

March 31, 2017
Brandon Ivey
The mortgages backing the new nonprime MBS from Shelter Growth have a weighted-average interest rate of 6.11 percent.
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Short Takes: A Good Idea, Says Bright / Stop the Presses: An Emerging Bipartisan Consensus on GSE Reform! / Here Comes the Flood (in Six Months) / loanDepot Retaining Jumbos / CarVal’s Non-Agency MBS

March 30, 2017
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Stop the presses: a consensus on GSE reform is here! Really?
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MBA Cautions Against Defining All Loans Held in Portfolio as Qualified Mortgages

March 29, 2017
Brandon Ivey
The portfolio QM proposal is supported by many Republicans along with some Democrats...
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Why Lenders Are Avoiding ‘Next Gen’ Tech Providers: the Costs are Too High

March 29, 2017
Brandon Ivey
The most prevalent users of next-gen tech were large and mid-sized lenders…
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Prepayment Rate on Mortgages in Jumbo MBS Close to Rate on Conforming Loans

March 28, 2017
Brandon Ivey
BAML suggested that one of the reasons prepayment speeds on jumbos have been relatively slow is the presence of self-employed borrowers…
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