Meanwhile, the indicators point to a drop in production volume for the fourth quarter…

Fannie Mae CEO Timothy Mayopoulos added: “Damage from the storms will be with us for a long time.”

The only top-five servicer to report an increase in volume was Nationstar Mortgage...

Through the first nine months of the year, Fannie has posted impressive net earnings of $9.02 billion.

The loss would have been worse if not for a one-time tax benefit of $23.2 million…

Nationstar originated $4.25 billion of new home mortgages in 3Q17…

According to bidders in the market, the early action focuses on loans that are “stuck” on warehouse lines.

Mark Calabria is not exactly a fan of the GSEs...

There were no seismic shifts in the demographics of the mortgage-servicing business during the third quarter of 2017, although a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis revealed an unexpected decline in the total holdings of the top servicers and a shift in composition. The top five shops held a whopping $3.716 trillion of servicing on their books at the end of September, down 0.2 percent from the previous quarter. The only top-five servicer to ... [Includes two data charts]

In an attempt to help its smaller seller/servicers achieve better pricing on coissuance transactions, Fannie Mae will launch a new “Servicing Marketplace” designed as an upgrade to an existing program that some say was seldom used. The new platform allows sellers to choose a Fannie-approved coissuance servicer and commit to sell servicing rights at the same time they sell the loan into a Fannie mortgage-backed security. All transactions are on a bifurcated basis; that is, the seller is still ...