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How the PLS market is making money on delinquent loans 

Housing Wire

Since then, Lakeview has unveiled two additional PLS offerings involving pools of delinquent FHA loans also securitized via Ginnie Mae. The more recent offerings — Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO2, which closed in late April; and Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO3, set to close in early June — also involve EBO loans, according to KBRA ratings reports.

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Could the assumable mortgage level the playing field?

Housing Wire

. “The little that I’ve dabbled in assumable loans, they are very difficult to maneuver,” Rochelle Gano, a Vancouver, Washington-based loan officer at Movement Mortgage , told HousingWire. Gano added that FHA loans seem “a little more workable” than the VA and USDA options.

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GSEs completed nearly 60,000 foreclosure prevention actions in Q1 2023: FHFA

Housing Wire

The total number of loans in forbearance at the end of Q1 stood at 65,757, coming out to 0.21% of the total loans serviced and 15% of delinquent loans. Sixteen percent of home modifications in Q1 were modifications with principal forbearance, the report said. The serious delinquency rate also decreased to 0.6%

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VA-like housing bill proposed for first responders, teachers

Housing Wire

Mortgages would be subject to FHA loan limits. percent of the principal, which could be financed, and would not pay a monthly insurance premium. Representatives John Rutherford (R-Fla.), Al Lawson (D-Fla.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) Homebuyers would pay an up-front mortgage insurance premium of 3.6

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Opinion: Rethinking the FHA mortgage insurance premium

Housing Wire

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan.

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Agent commission lawsuits cast long shadow over VA, FHA borrowers

Housing Wire

In the aftermath, one of the most contentious issues in the minds of mortgage professionals is how the ruling might affect FHA and VA mortgage borrowers. FHA loans are a popular option for first-time homebuyers or those who don’t have a lot of cash saved for a down payment, because the loans require a minimum of 3.5%

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Homebuyers are really beginning to feel the squeeze

Housing Wire

The national median monthly mortgage payment settled in loan applications increased 8.3%, from $1,526 in January to $1,653 in February, according to a survey published Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Conventional loans’ national median mortgage payment went from $1,582 in January to $1,749 in February.

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