In a Fading Fourth-Quarter Market, Lenders Lean More on TPO Channels
January 8, 2016
The flow of new mortgages delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac declined by 19.9 percent from the third to the fourth quarter of 2015, and a larger share of them came from third-party originators, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data. The two government-sponsored enterprises securitized $179.01 billion of single-family mortgages during the fourth quarter of last year. Although the biggest factor ... [Includes two data charts]