The Mortgage Bankers Association responded to comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who said that independent mortgage banks require regulatory oversight as they navigate commercial real estate debt.
In a hearing for the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen said the Financial Stability Oversight Council is focusing on nonbank mortgage companies because they “lack access to deposits, which banks have.”
She suggested that financial stress from commercial real estate weakness and low residential refinancing activity could lead to some IMBs failing.
“[Non-bank lenders are] reliant on short-term financing that may be a lot less stable than deposits, and in stressful times, their credit lines can be pulled,” Yellen said. “There is concern that in stressful market conditions we could see the…
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“This is a historic time for our industry. The mortgage market is grappling with the effects of…
Mortgage credit availability fell in July, sinking to its lowest level since 2013, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index.
The MCAI dropped by 0.3% to 96.3. Declines indicate that lending standards are tightening, while increases show loosening credit. The index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012.
The Conventional MCAI fell 0.5%, while the Government MCAI slipped by 0.1%. Within the Conventional MCAI, the Jumo MCAI fell by 0.8% but the conforming MCAI increased, up 0.2%.
Lenders are pulling their least utilized loan programs to alleviate liquidity stress, MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist Joel Kan noted.
“Declining origination volumes have led to lower profitability for many lenders, resulting in narrower loan product offerings to…
For the first time since at least 2008, independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks lost money every time they originated a loan.
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Annual Mortgage Bankers Performance Report found that IMBs lost an average of $301 on each loan in 2022. This puts production profits down 15% YOY, a series low.
The decrease was driven by low loan origination volume coupled with skyrocketing expenses. Volume was down 20% YOY. At the same time, loan balances increased by 5%, the largest single-year increase in the data’s history, resulting in higher production costs.
“The stellar profits of the previous two years dissipated because of the confluence of declining volume, lower revenues, and higher costs per loan,”…
Mortgage Lenders lost money on every loan originated for the first time since 2018 in Q2, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report. Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks lost an average of $82 on each loan they originated in the second quarter of 2022, down from gains of $223 per loan in Q1. The average pre-tax production loss was 5 bps, a complete turnaround from Q1’s average net production profit of 5 bps. Average production volume totaled $705 million per company, down from $808 million in Q1. Only three other quarters in the survey’s history saw net production losses: Q1 2014, Q1 2018, and Q4 2018. “The second quarter of 2022…
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Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks made $1,099 on each originated loan in Q4 2021, dropping from Q3’s $2,594, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report. More than three-fourths (76%) of firms analyzed made a net profit in Q4, especially firms with servicing operations. Those benefited from slower prepayments and low delinquencies which boosted their MSR valuations. But it’s a decrease from Q3’s rate of 92%. Plus, if no firms in the study had servicing operations, only 58% would have made a net profit last quarter. “Production margins tightened substantially in the fourth quarter of 2021. After a two-year run of above-average profitability, pre-tax net production income per loan reached its…
It was a record year for independent mortgage banks. IMBs and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks made an average of $4,202 on each loan they originated in 2020 – up from $1,470 per loan the year before, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The Annual Mortgage Bankers Performance report found: 99 percent of the firms posted overall pre-tax net financial profits in 2020, compared to 92 percent of firms in 2019 and 69 percent of firms in 2018.Average production volume was $4.5 billion (16,198 loans) per company in 2020, up from $2.7 billion (10,411 loans) per company in 2019. The average production profit (net production income) was 157 basis points in 2020, compared to 58…
Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of charter banks again saw strong business in the fourth quarter of 2020 – but smaller revenues on each loan they handled, according to a new Mortgage Bankers Association released Tuesday. IMBs reported a net gain of $3,737 on each loan they originated in the quarter – down from a $5,535 in the third quarter, the Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report showed. The report also found: The average pre-tax production profit was 137 basis points in the quarter, down from an average net production profit of 203 bps in the third quarter, but up on a year-over-year basis from 46 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2019.Average production volume was $1.47 billion per…
It was a big quarter for independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks. IMBs and subsidiaries reported a net gain of $4,548 on each loan they originated in the second quarter – up from a $1,600 per loan in the first quarter of the year, according to a report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Fueled by a surge in borrower demand and record-low mortgage rates, mortgage production profits in the second quarter reached the highest level since the inception of MBA’s report in 2008,” said Marina Walsh, MBA’s Vice President of Industry Analysis. “Production volume averaged over $1 billion per company, and there was an ideal combination of higher revenues and lower costs.” The report also found:…
