Housing Bill Adds Second Lien Amendment; DAPs to Be Eliminated

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
A sweeping housing aid package set to pass the House of Representatives added an important wrinkle Wednesday ahead of a key vote, while a long-controversial program for zero or little-money-down home purchases appears set to be relegated to the history books. According to a published report, the nearly 700-page long Housing and Economic Recovery Act [...]

Bloomberg Discovers the REO Industry

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
A piece today at Bloomberg co-authored by Bob Ivry marks the financial news outlet’s “come to Jesus” moment with the REO industry, and reading it is certainly amusing for anyone that’s actually spent time working in the space. (BTW, Bob, if you’re ever doing another story on this, we’re here for you on background.) The crux [...]

MBA Chief Kempner to Step Down

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
The Mortgage Bankers Association said late Tuesday that current president and CEO Jonathan Kempner had resigned; news of his departure comes as the industry lobbying group is having to ramp up its efforts on Capitol Hill, as well as defend itself from critics that claim its membership helped fuel the credit crisis now gripping the [...]

Moody’s Warns on Weakending Credit Quality

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
The strain of increased debt and falling home prices is pushing the U.S. economy to a breaking point, setting up consumers and investors for a nasty fall later this year, according to new research published Wednesday by Moody’s Economy.com. Credit quality is weakening across all loan types and in nearly every corner of the country, the [...]

Housing Package Set For House Approval; Bush Drops Veto Threat

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
A little fear over the possible future of Fannie Mae (FNM: 15.85 +18.20%) and Freddie Mac (FRE: 10.82 +11.55%) is apparently all it took to put enough momentum behind a behemoth housing package that has been bouncing throughout Congress since May — on Wednesday morning, White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters that President [...]

Purchase Apps Dive as Rates Soar: MBA

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
Mortgage purchase applications took a nose dive last week, falling 6.7 percent, as mortgage rates jumped up sharply, according to data released Wednesday morning by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The MBA’s composite index of application activity, which includes both purchase and refinances, fell 6.2 percent to 489.6 for the week ended July 18, the trade [...]

Paulson: “Too Big to Fail” Part of the Problem

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
If anything is clear as the housing and mortgage debacle stumbles seemingly ever-forward, it’s that the government’s response to the crisis has proven the theory that some institutions really are too big to fail; the orchestrated take-over of Bear Stearns & Cos. in March, which left the Federal Reserve holding the bag on roughly $30 [...]

Mortgage rates headed up as Fannie and Freddie struggle

Posted by Morgan on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23

As we’ve said ad nauseum, the Fed can only do so much with interest rates.  They can cut the living daylights out of the short term rate, driving down things like credit cards and HELOCs and pushing up things like food prices; but they don’t control the long-term interest rates associated with most mortgages.  So it makes perfect sense to us here at Blown Mortgage that long-term mortgage rates are racing upwards as worries of inflation and problems with the GSE’s put a premium on long-term risk.

From the New York Times:

The average interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 6.71 percent on Tuesday, from 6.44 percent on Friday, according to HSH Associates, a publisher of consumer rates. The average rate for so-called jumbo loans, which cannot be sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was 7.8 percent, the highest since December 2000.

Loan rates are rising because of concern in the financial markets about the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which own or guarantee nearly half of the nation’s $12 trillion mortgage market. The federal government has proposed a rescue, and has urged Congress to approve it quickly.

But bond investors, worried that the companies may not be as big a support to the market as they have been, are driving up interest rates on securities backed by home loans. That added cost is being passed on to consumers through the mortgage markets. For a $400,000 loan, the increase in 30-year rates in the last few days would add $71 to a monthly bill, or $852 a year.

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Fannie, Freddie Shares Saved by SEC Short-Selling Order?

Posted by Paul Jackson on Jul 23rd, 2008
2008
Jul 23
Battered shares in housing finance giants Fannie Mae (FNM: 13.41 0.00%) and Freddie Mac (FRE: 9.70 0.00%) have seen their fortunes swing wildly in the past few weeks: on the precipice of the unthinkable a few weeks ago, share prices in both government-sponsored entities have surged in the past few days as investors seem to [...]
2008
Jul 23

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