Originators also sold $483.13 billion of loans to unaffiliated buyers outside of the agency market…

In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold to the GSEs fell into the highest risk category…

Fannie Mae's Renee Schultz said the decision to offer property inspection waivers is probably the longest running pilot the GSE has ever had…

Lenders estimated that ATR/QM added $139 per loan to their ongoing origination costs.

Total U.S. debt outstanding is just over $21 trillion. Prior to the financial crisis, U.S. mortgage debt was actually larger than Treasury debt...

Starwood Property Trust, a REIT largely focused on commercial mortgages, has been stockpiling non-QMs…

Flagstar says the problem is exacerbated by a lack of inventory in certain geographic markets…

Surely, conservatives are applauding the way Mulvaney is trying to remake the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Mortgage sellers continue to get a little more adventurous in the kinds of loans they deliver to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to an exclusive Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of data on mortgage-backed securities issued during the first quarter of 2018. The credit loosening was more apparent in the purchase-mortgage sector, which saw declining production volume from seasonal factors. In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold ... [Includes two data charts]

About 70.4 percent of the home loans originated in 2017 were sold to secondary market investors, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data released this week. According to the preliminary HMDA data made available by federal regulators, lenders reported $1.738 trillion in first-lien single-family mortgage originations in 2017. HMDA data cover about 96 percent of the market. The biggest buyers were Fannie Mae ... [Includes one data chart]