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Buy now, pay later: How do mortgage pros deal with ‘phantom debt’?

Housing Wire

Racamato is now orienting his team to look closely at clients’ bank statements to find multiple — and often interest-free — installments of a few hundred or thousand dollars paid to the same company on a biweekly or monthly basis. His team is now “scouring” bank statements, and if they see BNPL loans, they ask clients to pay them off.

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Opinion: Regulators should focus on banks, not IMBs

Housing Wire

Before I open myself up to attacks here, I am using macro data from Urban Institute and there are certainly some banks who serve a broader swath of the market. More importantly, when it comes to the Ginnie Mae programs, banks contribute only 7% of all the mortgages by the FHA , VA , and USDA. In the FHA program alone, 46.3%

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First-time homebuyers made up a record share of agency purchase loans in 2023

Housing Wire

The market in which these folks purchased their first home was one of record house prices, ballooning down payments , rising rates and elevated debt-to-income ratios (DTIs). Non-bank servicers did a better job, retaining a little over one in four refinancing borrowers, while bank lenders retained only one in 10.

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Mortgage costs, lender denials jumped in 2022: CFPB

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Higher costs and rates meant customers taking out mortgages in 2022 devoted a higher share of their income towards paying home loans. The average debt-to-income ratio for Hispanic White and Black borrowers reached over 40% in 2022, about 39% among Asian applicants and 37% for non-Hispanic whites. in 2022, up from 8.3%

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

Housing Wire

But public filings analyzed by Inside Mortgage Finance revealed that seller repurchases rose to $430 million in the second quarter of 2024 — a 29% increase from the previous quarter. What this enhancement does is specific to three areas: debt-to-income ratio, reserves and loan amount. points,” Mittal said.

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Opinion: A rebuttal to Steve Broebeck and the CFA’s anticompetitive price fixing position

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We worked together during my days on the House Banking Committee, working to improve dealing with the federal flood insurance program. Let’s address these concerns: First, Steve’s argument presupposes buyers, especially those at the lower end of the income spectrum, can easily finance agent commissions through their mortgage.

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When rates skyrocketed, mortgage servicing reset the board. The next battle is about to begin

Housing Wire

Many independent mortgage banks opted to sell a substantial portion of their MSRs, aiming to free up cash and stay afloat amidst declining origination activity, anticipating future regulatory capital requirements or simply lacking interest in maintaining these assets. The dynamic has led to a repositioning of players in the market.

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