Single-family mortgage business at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac grew substantially from July to August, according to an Inside The GSEs analysis of mortgage-backed securities data. The two firms issued $79.34 billion of single-family MBS last month, a 20.5 percent increase from July’s volume. That brought year-to-date volume to $523.40 billion, down 6.1 percent from the first eight months of 2017. [Includes two data charts.]

So far, the final rule has not been delivered for OMB review, a process that in the past has sometimes taken months to complete.

Mortgage lenders generated an estimated $54.0 billion of new home-equity loans during the second quarter, up 18.7 percent…

The number of mortgage lenders using technology from Blend has quadrupled in the past year…

The pending deal marks the second acquisition in Stearns’ new Preferred Partner Platform initiative…

Silvergate Bank is actively providing warehouse lines of credit to non-QM lenders and we understand that Comerica is now sticking its toe in the water…

After years of talk about “digital mortgages,” now is the time that lenders should adopt such technology, according to Henry Cason, a senior vice president at Fannie Mae and head of digital products for the government-sponsored enterprise’s single-family business.

Wedbush estimates that originations will fall by 8.0 percent this year…

Through the first eight months of the year, Ginnie issuance was down 11.0 percent...

The CMBS transactions with the highest potential exposure are collateralized by shopping malls and office properties in Northern Virginia...