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Huge Forbearance Decline; Rate Reckoning; Lenders’ Profit Outlook

With interest rates expected to rise and most homeowners who could benefit from refinancing having done so, mortgage bankers are not expecting the sometimes record profits of the last year or so to continue. Fannie Mae’s third quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey (MLSS) found just short of a majority of respondents expecting their profit margins […]

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Non-Government Loans See Jump in Forbearances; Huge Inflation, But Here’s Housing’s Bigger Problem

The forbearance numbers increased again over the past week although Black Knight, in its weekly report, said these mid- to late-month upticks are becoming common . The number of mortgages in active plans rose by 16,000 or 0.73 percent. The number of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in forbearance declined by 1,000 but that […]

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MBS RECAP: Huge Jobs Report, Logical Weakness, and a Nice Bounce, But…

Posted To: MBS Commentary Huge Jobs Report, Logical Weakness, and a Nice Bounce, But… Bonds did quite well today considering Powell's endorsement of higher rates (yesterday) combined with this morning's significantly stronger jobs report. Most of the push back was seen in MBS, however, and even then, closing levels are only really worthy of enthusiasm […]

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