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Jumbo Sector Shows Signs of Life In Second Quarter of 2009
Fannie Mae dramatically increased its issuance of conforming jumbo mortgage securities in the second quarter of 2009. And JPMorgan Chase and CitiMortgage...
from Inside B&C Lending

H4H Program Changes Close to Launch
Legislative changes to expand the flexibility and borrower eligibility of the stagnant HOPE for Homeowners program are almost ready to be implemented, according to a...
from Inside FHA Lending

Agency MBS Market Hits New Monthly Record In June as Refi Fuels Second Quarter Surge
The agency MBS market hit a crescendo of new issuance last month, pulling second quarter production levels to their third-highest level ever as U.S. borrowers...
from Inside MBS & ABS

Obama Doesn’t Advance the Ball for GSEs
The Obama administration’s ambitious proposal to create a Consumer Finance Protection Agency, a single regulator to protect consumers in mortgage transactions and...
from Inside The GSEs

Bank and Thrift Mortgage Performance Continued to Deteriorate in Early 2009
The single-family mortgages that banks and thrifts chose to keep in their retained portfolios used to be a lucrative cache of low-worry assets, but that has...
from Inside Mortgage Profitability

Support Gels for Obama Proposal Requiring Securities Issuers to Retain an Interest
The Obama administration’s controversial proposal requiring securities issuers and sponsors to retain an interest in the transaction began to attract...
from Inside MBS & ABS

Obama Vows to Fight for ‘Super’ Regulator
President Obama vowed to vigorously oppose all special interests that seek to buck his proposal for a strong, independent agency that would approve and regulate...
from Inside Regulatory Strategies

Lack of Originations Harming Subprime Servicers’ Loss Mitigation Efforts
The amount of subprime mortgages outstanding declined again in the first quarter of 2009, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside B&C Lending...
from Inside B&C Lending

HECM Market Grows, Pullback Expected
Lending of FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgages set a single-quarter record in early 2009, but declining house prices, prevailing concern about the...
from Inside FHA Lending

Securitization Industry Faces Tough Oversight Under Obama’s Regulatory Restructuring Plan
Efforts to restore confidence and volume to the non-agency MBS and non-mortgage ABS market could slow down as a result of government regulatory...
from Inside MBS & ABS

     

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SCOTUS Upholds State Authority to Enforce Anti-Discrimination Laws Against U.S. Banks
The U.S. Supreme Court this week surprised the mortgage lending industry by ruling that a state attorney general can enforce certain anti-discrimination laws against national...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Industry Eyes Moratorium on GSE Appraisal Code, Effort Unlikely to Blunt Effects of GSE Directives
Members of Congress sympathetic to the mortgage and real estate industries have introduced legislation that would impose an 18-month moratorium on the controversial...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Loss Mitigation Options Abound, but Second Liens And Other Hurdles Still Obstruct HAMP, H4H
Major government efforts to ramp up loss mitigation efforts have created a myriad of new options for servicers, but industry experts say the impact has been dulled by the trickle...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Distressed Property Sales Surge to Two-Thirds Of Market, New IMF-Sponsored Study Finds
This year’s deepening mortgage default situation is flooding the housing market with distressed property sales. According to preliminary results contained in a new study...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Agencies Issue Interim Risk-Weighting Rule for Mortgages Modified Under MHAP
Federal thrift and banking regulators are seeking comment on an interim final rule that would allow mortgage loans modified under the government’s Making Home Affordable...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

GSEs Continue to Tweak Home Affordable Refi Programs as Refi Surge Lifts MBS Production
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to fine-tune their streamlined refinance programs designed for borrowers with equity deficiencies, even as a landslide of refi business...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Missing, Inaccurate Data Force CitiMortgage to Suspend Correspondent Lending Operations
CitiMortgage stopped accepting new loans through its correspondent lending division last week after a review of loan files found some appraisal and income-verification...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Big Three Dominate Direct Originations in Early 2009, But Mortgage Market Remains Fragmented
Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Chase Home Finance were the dominant forces in the home loan business in early 2009, but a still solid correspondent market left plenty of...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

The Mortgage Market at a Glance...
Weekly mortgage rates and application survey data as well as indexes for ARMs.
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