Warehouse lenders ended the third quarter with $65.0 billion of commitments to nonbanks on their books, a modest 3.0 percent sequential decline, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis. [Includes one data chart.]

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae saw a slight increase in their share of big-ticket mortgage lending in the third quarter as the non-agency jumbo sector cooled, according to an Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis. [Includes three data charts.]

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Lenders and their warehouse providers have been openly worrying about thinning profit margins for several quarters now with liquidity a primary concern.

At HUD, staffing levels have dropped almost 50 percent since 1991. From 2008 to 2017, HUD lost 18.5 percent of its full-time permanent staff, the highest staffing loss among any cabinet-level agency…

Year-to-date agency securitization of conforming-jumbos totaled $72.36 billion as of the end of September…

One warehouse chief even suggested that in 1Q19, as many as 70 percent of nonbanks will lose money before the spring homebuying season kicks in.

The Chicago-based GR has been making loans in Hawaii since 2015…

“With the turmoil at the CFPB, states are feeling that they have to fill the void,” said Daniel Suvor, counsel at O’Melveny & Myers…

Most of the refinancings facilitated by Fannie and Freddie are cash-out deals…