Mortgage brokers accounted for 10.9 percent of single-family mortgages securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first nine months of 2014, but they achieved far deeper market shares in California and a handful of other states. Brokers originated 21.3 percent of Golden State mortgages during the first nine months of the year, their biggest footprint in any state, according to an exclusive Inside The GSEs analysis of loan-level data ... [Includes one data chart]

PennyMac Commercial will focus on mortgages of under $10 million.

The market heated up significantly in 2013 with $152.22 billion of Ginnie MSRs being transferred.

The new jumbo MBS from Five Oaks includes representations and warranties that do not sunset.

“We tend to look at most everything if it is mainly performing and is 2010 or later vintage agency product," said Pingora CEO Michael Lau.

We continue to hear reports about a new player in the warehouse lending space that is offering attractive borrowing rates that appear too good to be true.

Industry observers believe underwriting standards on mortgages in jumbo MBS will continue to loosen, which might weaken investor confidence.

At First Tennessee Bank, for example, its commitments were flat from the second to the third quarter, but average outstandings increased by 13 percent to $861 million.

Skyline said it raised $18 million in equity and debt from Ellington along with Upfront Ventures and Dallas Capital Management.

The outstanding supply of agency single-family MBS continued to grow at a subdued pace during the third quarter of 2014, and the biggest investor classes did most of the heavy lifting funding the market, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. On the supply side, there were $5.632 trillion of single-family MBS guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae outstanding at the end of September. That was up just 0.4 percent from the previous quarter but had enough growth rings to show a 1.2 percent gain from a year ago. As has been the case for the past few years, the Ginnie MBS market grew...[Includes two data chart]