On average, LOs facilitated 32% less refi volume in the third quarter, with $900,000 in refi production per month.

Deliveries of retail-originated loans to agency MBS fell 16.3% in the third quarter, while wholesale-broker volume was down 9.2%. (Includes two data charts.)

Mortgage lenders no longer gripe about the hard time they’re having finding qualified and reasonably priced personnel. A barometer of what may lie ahead?

Fewer small-dollar mortgages over the past 20 years kept many low-income consumers from entering the homebuying market, according to participants at a webinar hosted by New America.

The Fed’s stimulus spending, which began in March 2020, is set to end by mid-summer.

What’s with the amended repo transactions at Rocket and other companies? It could be a case of yearend housekeeping but originations and securitizations are expected to decline next year. Right?

Bridge Investment Group, a major player in the multifamily sector, said the proposed changes to the enterprise regulatory capital framework could actually increase the capital requirements for the GSEs.

New Residential Investment isn’t the only REIT buying up other players in its space. In the commercial sector, there’s Ready Capital.

The structured finance industry discussed the effectiveness of return-to-workplace policies during a recent workshop organized by the Structured Finance Association.

New primary MI on purchase-money mortgages was up from the second quarter. Private MIs reported a 4.2% increase to $134.22 billion...