Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw significant increases in the flow of both refinance loans and purchase-money mortgages during the second quarter of 2016, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. And for the first time in a long while, nonbank mortgage companies delivered over half of the single-family mortgages securitized by the two government-sponsored enterprises. Fannie and Freddie securitized...[Includes three data tables]

Nonbank mortgage lenders saw a 33.0 percent increase in GSE deliveries during the second quarter…

A recession in the U.S. could cause the 10-year Treasury bond to yield 1.0 percent…

The refi share of new applications is now at 61.6 percent…

The bill would lower FHA’s current owner-occupancy requirement from 50 percent to 35 percent…

As one equities official noted: “It’s not fun being a stock analyst these days.”

Non-depositories also added about $40.45 billion through the agency’s pools issued for immediate transfer program, or co-issuance option.

USAA ranked first in VA loan production with Freedom Mortgage a close second...

Edens is a principal and co-chairman of Fortress Investment Group, a publicly traded investment fund that happens to own 66.2 percent of Nationstar’s stock.

Can rates go any lower than this? Time will tell...