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If mortgage rates rise slowly as the economy continues to grow, the impact from the Fed’s unwind on housing likely will result in a decline in refinancing activity.

The average home value backing the loans is $117,000, well below the average $150,000 of other recent RPL securitizations, according to Fitch Ratings.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will adjust their risk-sharing deals so that they can accommodate high loan-to-value loans refinanced under the programs replacing the Home Affordable Refinance Program.

Fannie Mae is extending its property inspection waivers to certain purchase mortgages with large down payments.

Higher net interest income and modest growth in expenses helped boost bank earnings by 10.7%, the FDIC said in its Quarterly Banking Profile.

The gulf between those at the upper ends of the wealth ladder and lower-income Americans has worsened markedly since the financial crisis, despite the trillions of subsidies that taxpayers provide for housing.

Freddie Mac has gotten the green light for its appraisal alternative for purchase loans, and has released information about how similar automated collateral evaluations for refinances have performed.

The Home Affordable Refinance Program will now expire on Dec. 31, 2018, the FHFA said.

Walter Investment Management Corp. is in danger of having its stock delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as its average market capitalization remains below required minimums.

A $507.6 million first mortgage on the Hotel del Coronado, a 130-year-old landmark with 1,400 linear feet of direct ocean frontage, is being securitized in BBCMS 2017-DELC. Barclays is the loan seller.