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February 21, 2019
Mortgage brokers aren’t taking over the world, but the industry’s share of new production reached a nine-year high in 2018, according to a...
February 21, 2019
Pershing Square Holdings — the high-profile hedge fund managed by mega investor Bill Ackman — is sitting on a paper gain of 140.6%...
February 21, 2019
Now that the smoke has cleared from Mark Calabria’s confirmation hearing to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, industry stakeholders...
February 1, 2019
Multifamily lender Walker & Dunlop plans to expand its small-loan business, confident about investor demand and performance of such assets in...... from Inside MBS & ABS
January 25, 2019
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has acknowledged the rules it implemented in 2014 on servicing and originations increased costs for...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
January 18, 2019
FHA and VA are calling on servicers to provide special relief to furloughed federal workers and contractors as the partial government shutdown...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending
December 21, 2018
A dozen mortgage industry groups have asked the CFPB to update its integrated mortgage-disclosure rules in order to facilitate accurate...... from Inside the CFPB
February 15, 2019
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac racked up $25.19 billion in combined net income in 2018, their most profitable year since 2013, when earnings...
February 15, 2019
The overall mortgage securitization rate fell slightly in 2018, with 70.0% of home loans originated in the primary market ending up in MBS...
February 15, 2019
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Thursday morning, Mark Calabria, President...
February 8, 2019
After a year and a half of following its carefully scripted plan to normalize its balance sheet and return to good, old-fashioned monetary...... from Inside The GSEs
February 1, 2019
Seer Capital Management; Angel Oak Companies... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
January 18, 2019
Ginnie Mae has reached the halfway mark of President Trump’s first term without a permanent leader and appears likely to remain so until after...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending
January 10, 2019
The flow of conventional mortgages with private mortgage insurance coverage into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities fell...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
February 8, 2019
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued a combined total of just $51.86 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities in January, their...
February 8, 2019
Sen. Mike Crapo, chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, stirred the GSE pot last week by issuing his outline on how to...
February 8, 2019
Mark Calabria, the White House nominee to be the next permanent director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, will get a hearing before...
February 15, 2019
The pricing offered in the non-agency market for certain loans eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises isn’t as attractive...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 15, 2019
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac racked up $25.19 billion in combined net income in 2018, their most profitable year since 2013, when earnings were...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 8, 2019
Lenders that sell single-family mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became slightly more daring in the fourth quarter of 2018, according...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
January 17, 2019
A handful of heavyweight nonbanks ended 2018 with significant increases in their portfolios of servicing rights tied to agency mortgage-backed...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
February 11, 2019
The CFPB may scrap the underwriting requirements of its 2017 payday lending rule, according to a proposal released last week. In the...
February 11, 2019
Congressional lawmakers are placing credit bureau reform in the spotlight with a hearing scheduled before the House Financial Services...
February 11, 2019
The CFPB recently provided informal guidance in the form of frequently asked questions, addressing issues related to the integrated...
February 21, 2019
The Department of Veterans Affairs issued guidance on policies regarding cash-out refinancing loans on Feb. 15, the same day the rules were to...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
February 15, 2019
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has approved a class-action settlement between borrowers and a large bank to...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending
February 1, 2019
Ginnie Mae late Wednesday barred loanDepot from delivering VA single-family loans to Ginnie Mae I and multi-issuer pools apparently due to...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 1, 2019
Activity in the non-agency mortgage market is likely to get a boost from any reforms of the government-sponsored enterprises undertaken by the...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 8, 2019
Lenders that sell single-family mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became slightly more daring in the fourth quarter of 2018,...
February 8, 2019
Publicly-owned commercial banks and thrifts reported widespread declines in mortgage banking income during the fourth quarter, according to...
February 8, 2019
The mortgage industry is bracing for a flat year in terms of volume due to higher mortgage rates, a slowing economy and weak loan demand....
February 1, 2019
There has been a significant uptick in the re-performing loan market, including whole-loan sales and securitizations (some unrated), as more...... from Inside MBS & ABS
January 18, 2019
More clarity is needed with regards to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposed changes to its rules on cash-out refinances, VA lenders said.... from Inside FHA/VA Lending
January 17, 2019
Most non-homeowners would like to purchase a house, but many cannot qualify for a mortgage, a survey by the National Association of Realtors...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
November 9, 2018
The Federal Home Loan Bank System’s combined net income dropped 3.0 percent in the third quarter of 2018 but year-to-date profits were still a...... from Inside The GSEs
February 15, 2019
Government-backed originations fell significantly in the fourth quarter of 2018 due to a decline in purchase lending even as year-over-year...
February 15, 2019
Industry representatives are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to delay an interim final rule on VA cash-out refinance loans for...
February 15, 2019
A Wall Street lobbying group has urged the Department of Veteran Affairs to change its cash-out refinance interim final rule, calling...
May 24, 2018
The Senate this week confirmed Brian Montgomery as the next FHA commissioner and assistant secretary of housing at the Department of Housing...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
February 5, 2018
Complaints by active-duty and retired U.S. military personnel about their mortgages rose in many categories tracked, both on a quarterly basis...... from Inside the CFPB
August 11, 2017
Low-downpayment lending is the highest it’s been in almost seven years as the purchase market keeps growing, according to new data from Black...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
March 20, 2015
Steady growth in the outstanding supply of agency single-family MBS offset the ongoing decline in non-agency MBS in the fourth quarter of...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 15, 2019
Originations of non-agency jumbo mortgages declined in the fourth quarter as well as full year 2018, according to an Inside Nonconforming...
February 15, 2019
Redwood Trust’s mortgage banking income in the fourth quarter was essentially level compared to the previous quarter even with lower...
February 15, 2019
A leading Republican in the Senate plans to leave loan limit decisions in the hands of the Federal Housing Finance Agency instead of...
November 26, 2018
The implementation of the qualified-mortgage standard has reduced the incidence of lending to consumers with high debt-to-income ratios among...... from Inside the CFPB
November 2, 2018
Certain potential changes could materially affect origination volume and determine the government-sponsored enterprises’ direction going...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending
September 27, 2018
Strong growth in originations of non-qualified mortgages in recent years has helped the sector gain market share. Lenders in the non-QM market...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
June 29, 2018
A decade after the nation’s subprime mortgage market came to a crashing halt, traditional Wall Street firms are now back in the game, offering...... from Inside MBS & ABS
February 11, 2019
For all of last year, some 8.15% of GSE purchase loans fell in the low-score/high-LTV bucket…
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