MFA was holding whole loans with an average unpaid principal balance of $8.3 billion at the end of March.

As most any mortgage banker knows, when rates rise — as they have this year (and rapidly) — servicing rights increase in value.

Fannie's interim CEO David Benson predicts a recession is coming next year...

No secret here: Annaly is becoming a player in the non-agency whole loan market...

Late payments on FHA loans narrowed by 78 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2021...

The increase in expanded-credit MBS issuance in 1Q22 was driven by non-QMs...

Given steeply higher rates and much narrower lending profits the past six months, Better’s journey to the NYSE has been anything but smooth.

MBA criticized FHFA’s plan to impose a 2% liquidity requirement on servicers’ hedging position in the TBA market...

The take-away compared to years past: FHA lenders appear to be behaving themselves...

FHA and VA delinquencies among Ginnie servicers continued to drop from their pandemic peaks during the first quarter of 2022. Three of the top five servicers increased their government-insured servicing portfolio. (Includes four data charts.)