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Inside Mortgage Trends

December 23, 2016

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Both Sides of Mortgage Banking Posted Significant Profit Gains During 3Q16

Mortgage origination and sales continued to rack up hefty earnings during the third quarter of 2016, but a rebound in servicing profits had an even bigger impact on the bottom line, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of earnings reports from 13 major public companies. With a combined $189.5 billion in mortgage originations during the period, the 13 firms reported $2.38 billion in production and secondary-marketing income. That was up ... [Includes one data chart] Read More

Production Boosted Mortgage-Banking Profits

Loan origination and secondary marketing pushed profits to a four-year high during the third quarter of 2016, according the latest Mortgage Bankers Performance Report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The average mortgage-banking entity earned $3.492 million in net income after adjustments during the third quarter, the MBA reported. That was up 42.8 percent from the previous period and represented the highest average profit since the fourth quarter of ... Read More

Jumbo Is Most Retail-Focused Market Segment

Mortgage lenders that generate a lot of jumbo home loans tend to rely heavily on their retail production platforms, while third-party originators play a bigger role in agency-eligible production. That’s one finding from an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of exclusive survey data collected by Inside Mortgage Finance. Lenders participating in the survey reported that 80.3 percent of their third-quarter jumbo production came through their retail platforms ... [Includes two data charts] Read More

Ginnie Updates MSR Acknowledgement Agreement

Ginnie Mae late this month released an improved acknowledgement agreement that aims to bolster the liquidity of nonbanks seeking to borrow against the asset value of their mortgage servicing rights. In an interview with Inside Mortgage Trends, Ginnie President Ted Tozer noted that one of the chief aims of the exercise was to offer clarifications to financiers that they, as lenders, would have no legal liability should the servicer of record default on their Ginnie bond payments. “There is no liability for ... Read More

Share of Loans that Close on Time Increasing

The share of purchase mortgages that closed on time increased in recent months, according to results from the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey. The improved closing performance occurred as home sales declined and interest rates on mortgages started to rise. Some 68.4 percent of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac purchase mortgages with private mortgage insurance tied to home sales in November closed on time, based on a three-month moving average ... Read More

Prospects, Higher Rates Boost Private MI Stocks

Mortgage insurance stocks have been rallying the past month, climbing to 52-week highs, thanks in part to the “Trump rally” and the belief that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a future after all. Six short months ago, the sector was in the tank with investors fearing that another cut in FHA premiums would erode their market share. The premium cut didn’t happen, and there’s a growing belief that the incoming Trump administration will favor the private sector – and not the FHA – taking on more risk ... Read More

Profit Margin Expectations Tumble Post-Election

The rise in mortgage rates after the November election gave many lenders the blues, triggering a plunge in near-term expectations for loan demand as well as a big drop in anticipated profit margins over the next three months, according to the latest lender survey from Fannie Mae. Forty six percent of respondents expect profits to decrease. Lenders’ profit margin outlook now is the worst in three years, according to the government-sponsored enterprise. “Lenders reported a significant net negative ... Read More

Floodwaters of Negative Equity Continue to Recede

The share of all homeowners underwater on their mortgage dropped in the third quarter of 2016 and is now at a fraction of what it was at its high-water mark, according to the latest data from Zillow. The firm found that negative equity dropped to 10.9 percent in the third quarter, down from 12.1 percent in the second and 13.4 percent a year ago. Nationally, there were fewer than 5.3 million homeowners underwater on their mortgage during the third quarter, a level far removed from the peak ... Read More

SFIG, MISMO Work to Standardize Data

Lenders that deliver loans to agency buyers and non-agency buyers could benefit from standards developed by the Structured Finance Industry Group and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization. SFIG detailed the data standardization effort in a green paper released last week. The Wall Street group noted that a lack of accepted standards can lead to confusion and disagreement between counterparties and service providers, particularly when data are calculated or ... Read More

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