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Mortgage Banking Incomes Achilles Heel in 3Q: Origination Profits
November 26, 2013
John Bancroft
A rough measure of production profitability, the ratio of production income to origination volume, fell from 179 basis points in the second quarter to just 84 bps in the third. Back in the Wonderland of early 2012, this ratio was 203 bps.
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