Mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs will account for 13.1% of the $353.4 million deal, which is more than double the share of GSE-eligible mortgages in the previous expanded-credit MBS from Redwood.
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition provides a way for Stearns to eliminate the debt while selling the balance of the firm to Blackstone. But there’s a catch: the bankruptcy plan allows for third-party investors to make a bid for Stearns.
We understand from informed sources that paying off Fannie/Freddie shareholders (the ones suing Uncle Sam) is calculation that certain federal officials have entertained.
Despite the so-so reading from the government, nonbank mortgage giants the likes of loanDepot and United Wholesale Mortgage continue to hire in large numbers.
Once effective, the requirements of the HECM law are significant, according to Allison Schoenthal, an attorney and partner in the New York office of Hogan Lovells...
Some of the top expanded-credit MBS issuers – including Invictus Capital Partners, Angel Oak Companies, Lone Star Funds and New Residential Investment – issued one security each in the second quarter after bringing two deals each during 1Q19…
Production executives and the teams they manage are making hay while the sun shines. Top ranked nonbank originators such as loanDepot, United Wholesale Mortgage and Guaranteed Rate are all hiring as the applications pour in.
Former Fannie Mae CFO Tim Howard says there is no economic reason the GSEs should hold capital comparable to large commercial banks. “Fannie and Freddie are not multi-product and multinational lenders. They are mono-line insurance companies, limited to a single asset type – residential mortgages – whose historical credit loss performance has been dramatically better than banks.”
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