Mortgage repurchase volume fell 9.5 percent from the fourth quarter and it was down 12.3 percent from the first three months of last year.

Stonegate has grown from 400 employees in 2012 to about 1,300 currently.

Since the housing crisis, the mass filing of claims has placed a huge strain on resources at the FHA.

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Savitt noted that some lenders don’t want to staff up too much “only to have to lay off workers later on.”

The jumbo MBS rated by Fitch since 2010 haven’t experienced any losses.

In addition, 25 percent of all LGBT survey respondents said they plan to purchase real estate in the next three years.

RealtyTrac noted that the peak for cash deals came in February 2011 at 42.2 percent of all transactions.

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The rise in retail market share likely reflects the fact that smaller lenders, which are more likely to do retail lending exclusively, account for a growing share of GSE business.