The September figures represented a 5.7 percent increase from the midway point in the year and an 8.8 percent climb from a year ago.

KBRA said the borrowers have strong credit profiles, significant home equity, and a weighted-average credit score of 760.

In the refinance market, the share of loans falling into the low-score/high LTV group was 2.57 percent, down from 2.86 percent in the second quarter...

Two former officials from WinWater joined Window Rock and will help shape the conduit, which will be known as Ventana Loan Services.

Meanwhile, the share price of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac common continues to rise...

Second-ranked AGNC Investment Corp. – formerly American Capital Agency Corp. – reported a 2.2 percent increase in its MBS holdings under a new management structure…

Market analysts, observers and participants alike feel pretty much in the dark about what to expect from Republican President-elect Donald Trump when it comes to the fate of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “Mortgage finance legislation and the future of the GSEs was never discussed during the campaign so there are no clear indicators of what a Trump administration will do regarding the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said in a post-election review. Complicating life for the new regime is...

An executive at Angel Oak Capital, Atlanta, parent of Angel Oak Home Loans, confirmed that his firm is seeking a rating and would like to issue a rated non-QM MBS someday…

Real estate investment trusts that focus on the residential MBS market reported a modest decline in agency MBS holdings during the third quarter, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. A group of 17 large, publicly traded mortgage REITs held a combined $217.24 billion of agency MBS at the end of September, down 1.2 percent from the mid-year mark. But the decline was largely due to shuffling in the ranks that resulted in two firms exiting the business. Annaly Capital Management completed...[Includes one data table]

Freddie Mac and Shellpoint Partners are preparing to price new securities in the aftermath of the presidential election, and Select Portfolio Servicing priced $600.0 million in an MBS backed by servicer advance receivables this week. Freddie is about to issue a Whole Loan Securities transaction, which would mark the second such issuance from the government-sponsored enterprise this year and the fourth overall, dating back to the first WLS transaction that closed in July 2015. The balance of the planned Whole Loan Securities Trust, Series 2016-SC02, is...