If Trump wants to get rid of Cordray, he will have to fire him “for cause,” says Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg.

Other loan types also generally showed improved closing times.

Some GSE observers believe an “implicit” guaranty is the same thing as an “explicit” one…

“Home prices cannot rise faster than incomes and inflation indefinitely.” – David Blitzer, managing director of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones.

The retail channel accounted for 91.7 percent of Wells Fargo’s jumbo production during the first nine months of 2016…

Reducing subsidies also would help renew private sector participation in the secondary market, the Congressional Budget Office believes…

This summer, Bright co-authored a GSE white paper with former Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Ed DeMarco…

The mortgages in the CRT deal have seasoned for an average of 10 years and are serviced by Select Portfolio Servicing.

Mortgage lenders that generate a lot of jumbo home loans tend to rely heavily on their retail production platforms, while third-party originators play a bigger role in agency-eligible production. That’s one finding from an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of exclusive survey data collected by Inside Mortgage Finance. Lenders participating in the survey reported that 80.3 percent of their third-quarter jumbo production came through their retail platforms ... [Includes two data charts]

Another non-agency lender has received a rating from Fitch: Angel Oak Home Loans...