Short Takes: A New Mortgage Benchmark Has Arrived / Next Up for Calabria: the MBS Secondary in NYC / The Chicago Way / A Loss for Cherry Hill, but… / A New Deputy Director at the CFPB May 15, 2019 Paul Muolo April was a record month for nonbank mortgage giant Guaranteed Rate...Read More
NAR Should be Happy: FHFA Will Leave Untouched the 30-Year FRM, Loan Limits May 15, 2019 Paul Muolo Next up for Calabria: A policy speech before the Mortgage Bankers Association...Read More
Ditech’s Top Brass Took Home $8 Million-Plus Last Year May 14, 2019 Paul Muolo Traded on the OTC market, Ditech's stock price is roughly four cents a share...Read More
Short Takes: China, Trade and Falling Rates / Rethinking the Downpayment Idea / Understanding Reverse Mortgages / It’s Official: Hill Vet Clinton Jones Joins the FHFA May 13, 2019 Paul Muolo and Dennis Hollier The way FHFA Director Mark Calabria keeps adding staff, the agency might need more office space...Read More
Flagstar Faces Financial Exposure on Failure of Reverse Lender May 13, 2019 Dennis Hollier Reverse lender Live Well Financial of Virginia closed its doors last week, laying off roughly 100 full-timers... Read More
On the Radar Screen of the CFPB: Non-QM Lenders May 13, 2019 Brandon Ivey Non-QM lending – the “new nonprime,” to some degree – totaled roughly $45.2 billion last year, a 20.2% improvement over 2017. Read More
Calabria Building His ‘Dream Team’ at FHFA, In Anticipation Of? May 10, 2019 Dennis Hollier Calabria's hiring spree at the FHFA reminds us of the Tom Waits's song, "What's He Building In There?"Read More
Short Takes: Waiting on Jones (at the FHFA)? / A Deep Resume on All Things Housing / Calabria’s Upcoming Speech / More on GSE R&R? / Carrington Preps Nonagency MBS / Freddie Offers a Swap May 9, 2019 Paul Muolo Mark Calabria's deep bench is about to get deeper...Read More
The Ginnie ‘Liquidity Letter’ Meetings are Over. Now What? May 9, 2019 Paul Muolo The 14 Ginnie Mae nonbank issuers were never identified by the agency but everyone in the industry knows who they are...Read More
Short Takes: Which Shops Received Subpoenas? / Not Just the Top Dogs / What Ginnie MBS Investors Hate: Fast Prepays / Ocwen’s Challenges / Lending Can Be Expensive May 8, 2019 Paul Muolo The loan application losing streak has ended!Read More
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