The top officer of Ginnie Mae announced his resignation this week as the nation gets ready for a new occupant in the White House. A successor? Not yet.

Issuance of single-family agency MBS is on track to top $3 trillion this year, with Fannie and Freddie doing most of the heavy lifting. (Includes two data charts.)

The enterprise said 544 loans from uniform MBS pools and 677 loans from mega/super pools were erroneously liquidated due to a servicer’s error. Investors in the securities have the option to pursue claims.

Now that we may have a new president (or maybe not), the jockeying has begun for the top posts at HUD, Ginnie Mae and elsewhere.

While Fannie began accepting single-family SOFR-indexed ARMs in Au-gust, it stopped taking LIBOR-indexed mortgages at the end of September. By the end of the year, the enterprise will no longer issue LIBOR-linked MBS.

MBS trading slowed in September but market volatility returned this week, portending dicey conditions in the weeks ahead.

The majority of Freddie Mae’s forborne multifamily loans were in small-balance loan pools. Just 251 of them loans were in the company’s signature K-deals.

While mortgage IPOs are starting to look dicey, the debt market continues to be receptive. The latest issuer: wholesale giant UWM.

The nation’s two largest MBS-investing REITs reported higher-than-expected earnings per share for the third quarter. Annaly even declared a quarterly common dividend of $0.22 per unit.

What might the GSEs earn in the third quarter? Based on their securitization volume, it should be a ton. Just subtract the COVID hit.