First Tennessee Bank said it has sold $14 billion in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac residential servicing rights to an undisclosed third-party. No purchase price was disclosed. The sale was brokered by Milestone Advisors LLC of Miami. FTB is a subsidiary of the publicly traded First Horizon National Corp. of Memphis. In June of last year Metropolitan Life bought most of FHN's residential origination business, including 230 retail and wholesale offices scattered across the nationwide. The bank, though, continues to originate in its depository footprint and service loans.
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Vacancy numbers leveled off this quarter, but the share among units owned by institutional investors is more than double the overall national rate, Attom said.
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This marks the second transaction from the shelf, backed by 651 first-lien, fully amortizing fixed-rate mortgages.
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All loans in the deal's portfolio were made to investors and underwritten based on property cash flow and rental income to determine borrower eligibility.
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Lower median loan amounts and earnings growth which outpaces mortgage expenditures helps to improve affordability even as rates continue to rise, the MBA said.
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A federal judge Wednesday said the Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to justify a sharp overhaul of a long-standing fair-housing grant program.
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If Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's comments lack substance on inflation in the market's opinion, it is likely to drive mortgage rates even higher, NerdWallet warned.
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