One source, angered by Cordray's comments, said, "No, Mr. Director. Those concerns have eliminated non-QM loans, which come with protection against frivolous lawsuits. That’s why no one except a perfect borrower can get a loan…”
With loan quality and real estate values continuing their rapid improvement over the past two years, the market value of “high-touch” servicers continues to head south and a handful of such firms are pondering sales. According to advisors that ply their trade in the mergers and acquisitions circuit, at the top of the “for sale” list is the IBM-owned Seterus, which at one point had at least $40 billion in problem Fannie Mae-related loans on its system. But will IBM – which also has its hands in the origination technology arena – finally pull...
Despite the 90 percent estimate offered by Applegate, the government-sponsored enterprises’ use of the CSP – let alone the GSE single security – looks to be a ways off.
Servicing federal student loans would likely become more costly and cumbersome under a set of best practices recently issued by a White House-sponsored interagency panel. Back in March, the Obama administration assembled a group of officials from the Treasury Department, the Department of Education, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Domestic Policy Council to monitor trends in the government’s student loan portfolio, budget costs and borrower assistance efforts. As part of that effort, the task force was directed...
The Collingwood Group says disruption may come to the mortgage finance industry because the current business model is too challenging, inefficient, costly and unresponsive to customer and business needs. “With no fundamental changes to origination processes in decades, lost efficiency, growing regulatory hurdles, high costs and low profits, there is little doubt the mortgage industry is ripe for disruption,” the firm said in a recent paper. Marketplace lenders and crowdfunders ...
The FHA will not issue a new case number for any FHA-to-FHA refinance if the current mortgage has a repair or rehabilitation escrow account in FHA Connection. The change, which is one of several updates to FHA Single Family Policy Handbook 4000.1, applies only to FHA streamline refis. It aims to ensure that escrow funds of the mortgage being refinanced are properly applied as well as conform to system requirements. The updated sections become effective on Sept. 14, 2015. Another change clarifies that the payoff statement for the mortgage being refinanced is the only document required when calculating the maximum mortgage amount for simple refi transactions. In addition, guidance for loan-to-value limits for cash-out refis has been updated to clarify that the 85 percent LTV restriction applies only to cash-out refis. HUD also noted that appraisers have flexibility in regards to when inspections should ...
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