Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae securitized $183.69 billion of newly originated mortgages produced through the wholesale-broker channel last year, a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis reveals. That was up 22.2 percent from 2015 volume, the biggest increase among the three mortgage-production channels. The biggest increase for broker originations was in Fannie mortgage-backed securities, rising 31.5 percent from 2015, accounting for 12.2 percent of the government-sponsored enterprise’s MBS issuance last year. The dataset includes only purchase and refinance loans that were securitized within six months of origination, and it excludes mortgages with no channel identification. Brokers earned...[Includes two data tables]

The banking industry continued to backpedal away from the business of servicing home mortgages for other investors during 2016, according to an exclusive new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call-report data....

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have a harder time recapitalizing if their deferred tax assets are negatively impacted by corporate tax reform, according to one GSE spectator....

The Mortgage Bankers Association this week urged Congress to support two bills that would make major changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, including clarification that would make private flood insurance acceptable to mortgage lenders....

Subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs (MTGLQ Investors) and Balbec Capital (Igloo Series II Trust) were the winning bidders of Fannie Mae's latest nonperforming loan sale announced this week. The four pools included a total of about 9,400 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $1.68 billion....

Nationstar, the residential mortgage servicer, revealed recently it is being investigated by the CFPB over issues related to complying with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act....

Mortgage applications rose 3.1 percent, on a seasonally adjusted basis, for the week ending March 10, 2017, versus the week before, the Mortgage Bankers Association announced Wednesday morning. The MBA's Refinance Index rose 4 percent, and its Purchase Index was up 2 percent…

Correspondent production of conventional-conforming mortgages increased by 51.9 percent from 2015 to 2016.

Walter also stopped originating reverse mortgages in January.

The AGs claimed that the CFPB’s governance structure violates the separation of powers in ways that directly undermine the interests of federalism.