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...
As one vendor put it: “Loss mitigation was behind the scenes for a while because everyone was saying that foreclosures are low and bankruptcies are stable. Well, that’s not the case anymore."
Some SWFs in other countries have extensive ownership interests in major corporations and sweep much of their profits into state coffers.
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