Servicing

Freddie Mac is extending its streamline refinancing program to mortgages with loan-to-value ratios of 80% or less, bringing its Home Affordable Refinancing Program in line with Fannie Mae’s.

A few hours after the Federal Housing Finance Agency officially slammed the door on principal reductions, the Treasury Department shot off a memo to agency director Ed DeMarco asking him—more or less—to reconsider his position.

Servicers completed 60,000 foreclosures in June, which is the same amount from the previous month but down 24% from last year.

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage is embracing residential reforms mandated by the new national servicing standards, regulatory consent orders and the Dodd-Frank Act.

But the HUD auction raises an interesting question: if HUD can unload nonperforming loans (NPLs) why can’t Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

The Census Bureau reported that the number of the owner-occupied homes rose by 126,000 units in the second quarter after falling by 490,000 units in the first quarter.

Nowadays, with people staying in homes for years after defaulting, it takes a lot more than $2,500 to get borrowers to leave.

So far, 43% of complaints received by the CFPB since it opened its doors in July 2011 were about mortgages.

Optimism from Trepp analysts that commercial MBS delinquency rates might improve in the second half of 2012 did not occur in July as expected.

In expanding its note sale pilot program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing new certification requirements on servicers that are willing to assign defaulted FHA loans for the upcoming sales.