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Inside Mortgage Trends

December 22, 2006

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Top Lenders Continue Building Servicing Market Share Despite Downturn in Production

Bulk servicing transactions played an increasingly important role in growth plans for major lenders during the first nine months of 2006 as new originations declined.A new Inside Mortgage Profitability analysis shows the 30 largest... [Includes a chart and graph] Read More

The Internal Revenue Service is Taking a Closer Look At the Mortgage Industry and is Proposing New Rules

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are proposing new trustee rules that would force some servicers to keep looking over their shoulders while they spend more time and money trying to comply. Effective Jan. 1, a regulation for reporting of... Read More

Mortgage Firms Must Meet Next Year’s Challenges, Including FAS 156 and Reg AB to Remain Profitable

Mortgage firms will find challenges to profitability more pronounced in 2007 than in the past three years, according to compliance experts. Mike Seelig and Steve Davies, partners in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ consumer finance practice, see lenders confronting a... Read More

Large Company Investor Relations Units Brace For Escalating Shareholder Demands in 2007

While stockholder demands can be high at large and mid-tier public mortgage companies, few seem to be changing the way they handle investor relations – a departure from what is happening at mega-lenders. A survey of chief financial officers from various... Read More

Equity Firms are Finally Entering Into the Mortgage Market Looking for Bargains; Firms Continue to Cut

The first in what analysts predict will be a wave of acquisitions emerged at year-end, as private equity investors began taking an increased interest in mortgage firms. Ace Mortgage Funding, a portfolio company of private equity investor Roark Capital Group, is... Read More

Accredited Home Lenders Receives Two Rating Upgrades, Bucking Mostly Sour Views of REITs

Accredited Home Lenders with its strong risk management strategies and low cost has prompted not one, but two recent ratings upgrades from analysts. The surprising moves come as Wall Street is growing increasingly critical of the subprime mortgage business. Roth Capital upgraded... Read More

Freddie Mac Promotes Its Stratification Service To Analyze Loan Portfolios for Hidden Liquidity

Freddie Mac is pushing its free portfolio stratification service as a loss-leader to attract more business to the government-sponsored enterprise. In eliminating the middleman, Freddie Mac can provide an accurate analysis of a bank’s loan portfolio that can be turned... Read More

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