Ginnie’s big advantage is that it gets all the FHA and VA loans, while the GSEs so far have not gotten much traction in their reduced-downpayment programs.

Almost 60 percent of the repurchases made in the first half of 2015 involved loans that were securitized by the GSEs in 2013 and 2014.

The top five jumbo MBS servicers handle 83.3 percent of the loans, with Cenlar alone claiming a 38.4 percent share.

According to a new report from Compass Point Research & Trading, a gain-on-sale index the firm created has been contracting the past month...

First-time homebuyers make up a significant part of the purchase-mortgage market, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a hard time competing with Ginnie Mae, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis of loan-level data.The three agencies securitized $118.90 billion of first-time buyer mortgages during the first six months of 2015, but Ginnie accounted for over half (52.4 percent) of the business. Ginnie’s big advantage is that it gets all the FHA and VA loans, while the GSEs so far have not gotten much traction in their reduced-downpayment programs. First-time buyers typically have less savings for a downpayment and often have less-stellar credit profiles. In the first half of this year, the average loan-to-value ratio for...(charts)

The FHFA has the authority to require the GSEs to buy chattel loans for manufactured housing, but it decided not to exercise this option...

What do nonbanks think about depositories avoiding the wholesale/broker sector? They love it.

“The most common example is a loan program for self-employed borrowers that relies on bank statements, rather than tax returns, to determine income,” Fitch said.

Quicken Loans is contributing 17.1 percent of the mortgages to the new jumbo MBS from Credit Suisse.

If Fannie Mae's origination forecast comes true, just $615 billion in loans will be written from July 1 to Dec. 31, an ugly outlook indeed…