With roughly three months left before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus rules on loan-originator compensation and ability-to-repay standards kick in, mortgage originators are scrambling to find the best way to survive and thrive under the new regime. In recent weeks, some in the mortgage broker community have suggested that operating as a mini-correspondent could help brokers bypass points-and-fees complications with the qualified mortgage definition under the ATR rule ...
Borrowers or loan officers misreporting income on loan applications at the height of the housing boom may have pushed up the default rate of high-income borrowers, according to a new Federal Reserve analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Data that was matched with non-HMDA credit data. Researchers Neil Bhutta and Glenn Canner of the Feds Division of Research and Statistics found that many borrowers classified as high-income may actually have had lower incomes than what they stated on applications, and ...
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors, a Dallas-based diversified mortgage services provider, has acquired two customer service operations from JPMorgan Chase to improve its delivery of outsourced mortgage services, including loan origination and specialty servicing. The companys latest acquisition is a large-scale customer service site in Monroe, LA, which would enable Wingspan to respond to client needs faster and better, according to Steven Horne, Wingspan president and chief executive officer ...
Servicers largely approve of an accounting change for foreclosures proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. However, industry participants differ on particular disclosures that would accompany the proposed change. In July, FASB proposed clarifying when a foreclosure occurs, for accounting purposes. The accounting board said reporting practices for troubled-debt restructurings and residential foreclosures are currently varied due to the lack of an accounting definition for ...
Its no secret that Nationstar has been an active bidder on MSRs the past two years, taking down some huge packages of product, including receivables from Bank of America.
Rising prices for mortgage servicing rights in the second quarter of 2013 helped lure sellers to a market that continues to see a decline in available product and improving fundamentals. The Federal Reserve this week reported that the long, steady decline in home mortgage debt outstanding a streak that has now run six and a half years continued through the midway point in 2013. As of the end of June, home mortgage debt outstanding was down to $9.833 trillion, a 0.4 percent drop from March and a hefty 12.9 percent decline from the all-time high ($11.287 trillion) set back in March 2008. A new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis reveals...[Includes two data charts]