Actual GSE sales volume for the top five was down 2.2 percent from the second quarter, but overall Fannie/Freddie business was down slightly more, 3.8 percent.
“We are hopeful this lawsuit will be resolved quickly so the fee waiver is granted, the data we seek is produced by HUD and the public is granted access to this important information,” the CRC said.
The guidance doesn’t “tells us anything more than where we were an hour before this guidance came out," according to Michael Barone, a director of legal and regulatory compliance at Lenders Compliance Group.
After a long, steady decline in their combined market share, the top five sellers of home mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted a modest increase during the third quarter of 2015. The top five sellers delivered $67.66 billion of loans to the two government-sponsored enterprises during the period for a 30.3 percent share of the market, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis. That was up from 29.8 percent in the second quarter and ... [Includes two data charts]