However, there’s a catch to the Ginnie number. Servicers of government product, especially depositories with a balance sheet, increasingly are buying delinquent FHA and VA loans out of MBS pools as a way to save money and possibly rehabilitate them down the road.

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So why release yet another preliminary figure? “Today’s announcement was made in connection with financial disclosures the company was required to provide to bondholders,” Rocket said in a statement. The bonds, however, are privately held.

The credit facility will be used for general corporate purposes...

There’s a big disparity between default rates on Fannie/Freddie loans and government-insured loans in Ginnie MBS. The combined total delinquencies for the government-sponsored enterprises was 4.13%, compared with Ginnie’s 10.81%.

The one truism about mortgage banking that everyone knows: It’s a highly cyclical business that lives and dies on two central factors, interest rates and employment.

The CFPB brought just 11 enforcement actions in 2018...

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S&P and dv01 cited concerns about how mortgage servicers and trustees are handling the reporting of non-QMs in terms of delinquency and forbearance...

Thanks to the economic carnage caused by the pandemic, interest rates continue to drift lower, with some originators offering 30-year FRMs at under 3.0% and 15-year mortgages below 2.0%.