Gordon Albrecht of FCI Lender Services, the nation’s largest hard-money subservicer: "We [have been] getting a ton of requests for forbearance, but we’re a subservicer, so we have no authority to do any type of forbearance without the lender’s direction and permission.”
However, FHFA made it clear the agency is not cancelling the new fee, which it says is intended to help Fannie and Freddie defray the costs associated with COVID-19 relief. The agency says those actions have conservatively cost the enterprises $6 billion...
Black Knight said the Fannie/Freddie forbearance measurement fell by 15,000 units while the FHA count increased by 5,000. The private-label/portfolio tally rose by 10,000 loans.
The general consensus is that this new loan-level price adjustment will not be killed outright but very well could be moved back by at least 60 days from its current Sept. 1 implementation date. This would allow lenders facing rate-lock hits to avoid financial damage…
Among the largest servicers, delinquencies increased sharply for some and actually declined for others. However, the differences are tied to how servicers classify mortgages in forbearance...
In a new filing with the SEC, Mr. Cooper disclosed that after accounting for a modest increase in the value of its mortgage servicing rights, the new GSE LLPA will reduce the value of the loans in its pipeline by approximately $20 million...
The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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