Agency securitizations of correspondent loans were sharply down in the first quarter of 2024 as volume dropped across the board. Refinances made a surprising surge, while credit quality remained unchanged. (Includes two data tables.)
Publicly traded banks reported a 21% increase in mortgage-banking income during the first quarter of 2024. Improving gain-on-sale margins accounted for much of the increase. (Includes data table.)
While overall correspondent sales to unaffiliated non-agency buyers declined in 2023, Veterans United increased its sales volume. (Includes data table.)
Philadelphia-based Republic Bank focused its mortgage production on jumbos with below-market rates. The bank also held agency MBS that lost value as interest rates increased.
A recent Fannie Mae study found that lenders are concerned about the lack of competition and rising prices of technology service providers’ solutions in the mortgage industry.
PennyMac booked a weak increase in servicing income due to a large loss tied to hedges for MSRs; First American’s CEO doesn’t expect the CFPB’s effort on lender’s title insurance to change much.
Figure Technology Solutions is offering its Digital Asset Registration Technologies registry to partners of Figure Lending to use for home equity lines of credit.
A deep dive into closing costs by the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that borrowers pay more in closing cost fees when leaning on brokers and nonbank lenders for mortgage financing.