Internet retail giant Amazon.com is exploring the idea of buying a mortgage banking franchise and making a splash in this highly cyclical business. But two huge questions loom: Will it actually happen? And if so, will Amazon disrupt the residential lending landscape the way it has brick-and-mortar retailers at the shopping mall?

Second-ranked JPMorgan Chase reported a hefty 48.3 percent decline in mortgage sales.

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Applications have picked up in April, May and June but firms that focused too heavily on refis are now feeling the heat.

GSE mortgage sellers repurchased a slightly larger volume of defective single-family mortgages during the first quarter of 2018, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis.During the first three months of the year, lenders repurchased or made other indemnification on $240.91 million of home loans sold to the GSEs, a 4.6 percent increase from the record low set in the fourth quarter of 2017. Buybacks of Fannie loans were up 27.2 percent, but ... [Includes one data chart.]

FHA officials have begun raising alarms about the rising proportion of higher-risk mortgages being endorsed by the agency. A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities data suggests they have good cause for their concerns

“We didn’t observe any meaningful change in purchase loan application trends compared to earlier years,” said Archana Pradhan of CoreLogic.

One former loanDepot official had this to say about the rumor: “It makes sense. loanDepot has plenty of loan officers handling inbound leads. Amazon could create a ton more and compete with Quicken….”