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Freddie Mac unveils offer for up to $2.2B in CRT notes

Housing Wire

Through the STACR note offerings, private investors participate with Freddie Mac in sharing a portion of the mortgage credit risk in the reference loan pools retained by the agency. billion in risk from reference pools valued at $300.9 billion via five STACR and three Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) CRT deals.

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Compass’s title firm runs into trouble in Washington

Housing Wire

The Insurance Commissioner for the state of Washington apparently concluded that Modus offered real estate agents and their clients a “thing of value,” such as free home warranties, other closing-related services, in exchange for switching their escrow and title services to Modus.

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loanDepot’s new FHA down payment assistance program lets borrowers put zero down

Housing Wire

These programs function like a modification to Fannie Mae ‘s HomeReady and Freddie Mac ‘s HomePossible programs, which allow a 3% down payment — or what lenders refer to as 97% loan-to-value (LTV) — on conventional loans. FHA loans also come with mandatory upfront and annual mortgage insurance premiums — usually for the life of the loan.

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What a tech entrepreneur has discovered about reverse mortgages

Housing Wire

Which leads me to the second point: Many existing reverse customers said that high fees really bother them, and they primarily referred to the mortgage insurance premium and the ongoing costs they had to pay.”

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HUD publishes dozens of proposed rules in spring agenda

Housing Wire

Another proposed rule “would establish through rulemaking the circumstances in which governmental entities are deriving a prohibited financial benefit” from mortgage insurance for loans involving down payment assistance programs , with an initial notice proposal planned for May 2024.

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Comerica Bank to ‘organically exit’ warehouse lending

Housing Wire

Representatives at Comerica referred to the presentation when asked about the bank’s decision and its implications. Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) first reported on the topic. In April, the agency downgraded the bank’s rating to Baa1 from A3. of its common equity tier 1 capital [or CET1, a key regulatory capital measure].”

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RealFi lays off employees without paying salaries, severance: sources 

Housing Wire

It wasn’t immediately clear what restructuring Mosiello was referring to. In August 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) filed a lawsuit against RealFi for contractual indemnity — which obligates one party to pay the damages or losses sustained by another party due to certain future occurrences.