With no blockbuster mergers and a relatively subdued secondary market in mortgage servicing rights, glacial momentum continued to reshape the mortgage servicing business during the third quarter of 2016, according to new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. The two forces that have had the biggest impact over the past few years are the growth of nonbanks and the gradual deconsolidation of the servicing market. The combined portfolio of the 23 nonbanks that ranked among the top 50 servicers as of the end of the third quarter jumped 6.9 percent in just three months. The nonbank share of the $7.389 trillion serviced by the top 50 players in the market rose...[Includes two data tables]
Through the first nine months of 2016, Freddie Mac earned $2.97 billion. It lost $354 million in 1Q and then turned around and posted a $993 million profit in the second quarter.
Pingora Loan Servicing, Matrix Financial Services and Arvest Bank were the top acquirers of GSE servicing through co-issuance over the first nine months of the year.
New issuance of commercial mortgage securities increased substantially during the third quarter, with both the private and agency sectors posting solid gains, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. A total of $53.14 billion of income properties were securitized during the third quarter, a 33.4 percent increase from the previous period and the strongest three-month output since the second quarter of last year. That brought year-to-date issuance to $137.74 billion, off 12.4 percent from the pace set in the first nine months of 2015, and it would take a huge fourth-quarter surge for the market to reach last year’s total. Non-agency commercial MBS production rose...[Includes one data table]
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