Conventional conforming loans accounted for 60.3 percent of the 2014 mortgage market, according to an Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of 2014 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data. Wells Fargo was the top HMDA lender last year with a 7.9 percent share of the market. HMDA originations include only retail and table-funded broker production and do not include correspondent acquisitions. Wells was the top conventional-conforming lender and the biggest jumbo producer. Quicken Loans was...[Includes one data table]

Michael Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, said the GSEs’ back-end risk-sharing deals do not represent the type of reform most industry participants would like to see.

Investors that buy homes accounted for 15.2 percent of purchasers in September, based on a three-month moving average.

At mid-year 2015, Redwood’s subsidiary had $882 million of outstanding FHLB advances with a weighted average interest rate of 0.23 percent and a weighted average maturity of six years.

Jumbos accounted for 18.1 percent of total production in 2014, up from a 14.6 percent share the previous year.

Controlled by Loan Star Funds, Caliber has $1.0 billion to spend on funding non-agency mortgages.

It's not everyday that a nonbank, nonprime lender gains access to the Federal Home Loan Bank system...

With a strong fourth quarter, jumbo MBS issuance in 2015 could nudge past the post-crisis high set back in 2013, when $13.12 billion of these deals came to market.

The non-agency MBS market sputtered to its weakest new issuance volume in a year during the third quarter of 2015, according to a new market analysis and ranking by Inside MBS & ABS. A total of $9.43 billion of non-agency MBS were issued during the third quarter, down 39.7 percent from the second quarter. Thanks to a strong start in the first half of 2015 – and weak new issuance during the same time last year – year-to-date production was up 47.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014. The two mainstays that have been propping up non-agency MBS issuance have been...[Includes two data tables]

Returns on non-agency structured finance products declined in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, according to industry analysts. The shift appears to be due to macro issues as opposed to declining underwriting or performance. “The third quarter wasn’t a particularly happy quarter for non-agencies, with brakes on issuance and pullback in returns,” analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a new report. “The latter half of the third quarter was characterized...