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Hundreds of billions of servicing are being bought & sold out there. With Freddie & Fannie servicing trading at 5:1 (mid 3’s for Ginnie servicing), given current rates versus where servicing portfolios are, servicers are tapping into this source of capital instead of letting it sit on their balance sheet. Think of it as a savings account for a lender that retains servicing: with revenues dipping, the cash from a servicing sale can come in handy. Meanwhile, lenders and loan originators are being asked, “Are you trying to win, or just trying not to lose?” Investors and lenders are sharpening their pricing pencils for purchases at the expense of refis. Webinars abound about how MLOs, and their parent lender, should go after the purchase business. It’ll be a dog fight out there, at least for new home business, much of which goes to builder’s lenders. Recently we learned that mortgage applications for new-home purchases in Decem ....
Anyone who’s seen 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” remembers the talking computer HAL (whose name was cleverly derived from subtracting one letter from IBM). We need more acronyms, right?! Here’s one I hadn’t heard: BNPL. The buy now, pay later industry is an increasingly important driver of retail sales, so has caught the attention of the mortgage industry’s pal the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. I’d never heard of Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, and Zip, notable players in the BNPL industry, but regulators are looking into their data collection policies. Those danged computers and their programmers! Are help desk jobs in jeopardy? Perhaps: Capacity just raised another chunk of change to automate helpdesks. Ever heard of Coadjute? Me neither (it’s a UK company) but its basic business purpose is something you and your real estate agent connections should know about: using blockchain to “bring together everyone involved ....