HomeStreet restructured its mortgage business last year…

According to a tally by Inside Mortgage Finance, few warehouse providers bucked the trend of falling commitments.

KBR points out that risk-sharing results in premiums being shifted away from Fannie and Freddie to providers of credit risk protection.

Moody’s detailed profitability levels for four large private nonbanks: Freedom Mortgage, Provident Funding Associates, Quicken Loans and Stearns Lending.

Originators also sold $483.13 billion of loans to unaffiliated buyers outside of the agency market…

In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold to the GSEs fell into the highest risk category…

Fannie Mae's Renee Schultz said the decision to offer property inspection waivers is probably the longest running pilot the GSE has ever had…

Lenders estimated that ATR/QM added $139 per loan to their ongoing origination costs.

GSE earnings bounced back to a profitable status, as expected, in the first quarter, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reporting a combined $7.2 billion profit. That number is up from the $9.4 billion earnings hit the GSEs took last quarter due to tax reform that went into effect in December 2017. [Includes one chart.]

Starwood Property Trust, a REIT largely focused on commercial mortgages, has been stockpiling non-QMs…