Ginnie Mae is considering three possible initiatives that would meet issuers’ needs that are not fully accommodated under its mortgage-backed securities program.
Lenders have become even more pessimistic about profitability and consumer demand for mortgage credit, according to Fannie Mae’s most recent lender sentiment survey.
Commercial banks and thrifts repurchased $732.9 million of single-family mortgages during the first quarter of 2018, a 6.9 percent decline from the previous period, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call report data. [Includes one data chart.]
Citadel, one of the earliest entrants to the new expanded-credit market, funded $295.0 million of loans in the first quarter, a 19.4 percent sequential increase…
Ginnie Mae has added a new metric to make it easier for approved issuers to track the prepayment rates of single-family loans underlying they have delivered into mortgage-backed securities. The new prepayment metric would enhance Ginnie’s Issuer Operational Performance Profile (IOPP) tool, which was launched in 2015 to help issuers measure their performance against the agency’s standards. The new tool is the latest move by Ginnie to ensure the integrity and market predictability of Ginnie MBS. The prepayment tool will be available to lenders beginning June 25. The announcement follows an agency administrative action last week against three VA lenders that were penalized for cherry picking and refinancing unseasoned VA loans not to benefit borrowers but to charge them higher fees. The lenders – Freedom Mortgage, SunWest Mortgage Co. and NewDay USA – were among nine issuers that ...
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