GSE securitization of investment-property mortgages fell by 33% on a sequential basis in the second quarter, while overall single-family GSE activity was down only 5%.
Due to the similarities between the structures of the FHFA and the CFPB, some firms facing enforcement actions from the CFPB are hoping to have courts invalidate the actions.
In the mortgage industry, the FCA has been used by the Department of Justice and Department of Housing and Urban Development to punish FHA lenders for sloppy underwriting practices that led to defaults.
In particular, one clause could rankle mortgage industry participants: HUD also agreed to notify FHFA of any Fair Housing Act complaints related to counterparties of Fannie and Freddie.
JMP said it sounds like “these actions” by the GSEs “primarily targeted nonbank wholesale channel lenders, of which UWM [United Wholesale Mortgage] and HMPT are among the largest.”