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No undue risk! Freddie Mac’s Sonu Mittal on new buyback remedy, appraisal waiver extensions

Housing Wire

When asked whether loan buybacks were a more significant issue last year than now, Freddie Mac executive Sonu Mittal says emphatically, “It depends on who you ask.” Freddie Mac has seen a nearly 55% reduction in repurchase requests from its peak in the first quarter of 2023. This expands upon a pilot program launched earlier this year.

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Fairway, Longbridge lead reverse mortgage presence at The Gathering

Housing Wire

Meanwhile, Ventura described Fairway’s 2015 entrance into the reverse mortgage industry as a principal agent — and how the larger company aims to leverage its robust forward mortgage operations in its reverse pursuits. Of that number, just under 300,000 were rejected for the loan they applied for. Last year, more than 1.1

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Agency loan-repurchase strategy sparks pushback

Housing Wire

Independent mortgage banks have been coping with a still-surging wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that represents yet another threat to lenders’ already stretched balance sheets. Those loans are going to be 20 points underwater, for the 3% to 3.5%

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Fannie Mae launches another CRT offering

Housing Wire

The recent offering , CAS Series 2022-R02, involves transferring loan-portfolio risk to private investors via a $1.2 billion note offering backed by a reference pool of 149,393 residential mortgage loans valued at $44.3 trillion in single-family mortgage loans, measured at the time of the transaction. billion.

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MBA seeks clarity on GSE investment property policies

Housing Wire

One key issue is the PSPA amendment that limits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from buying single-family loans secured by investment properties or second homes. Reports that the GSEs are requiring some lenders to adjust loan deliveries as early as April. The revised PSPAs require that beginning Jan.

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UWM is bullish on the resurgent private-label market

Housing Wire

Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) capitalized on a booming private-label market in 2021 by sponsoring its inaugural securities transaction this past May, a prime jumbo deal involving 508 mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $351.9 That’s a strong start for a new issuer. “A

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Opinion: Regulators should focus on banks, not IMBs

Housing Wire

When looking at the nonbank share of all loans broken down by investor ( Fannie , Freddie , and Ginnie Mae ) the glaring data point that stands out is that nonbanks do well over 80% of all loans being made today. I think it comes down to a core principal: IMBs only do mortgages. In the FHA program alone, 46.3%

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