A top ten lender, U.S. Bank produced $9.1 billion of mortgages in 4Q18, a 19.1 sequential decline...

Management blamed the lower figures on “seasonality.”

JPM valued its MSR portfolio at 117 basis points at the end of the fourth quarter, reducing the mark from 122 bps in 3Q18...

Jumbo mortgages account for the vast majority of First Republic’s single-family production.

Companies with the most gripes filed against them were the three major credit reporting bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion...

Wholesale-broker activity saw roughly the same rate of decline as the retail channel did...

The more exaggerated the rate moves, the greater the gain or loss.

Compared to the same period a year earlier, retail loan production fell by 23.3 percent at Citigroup...

The IRS resumed providing income verification services a week ago and the agency expected to catch up on volume...

Retail mortgage lending continued to lose market share in the second half of 2018, mostly due to a surge in correspondent production. A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data shows that the retail share of loans sold to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae fell to 48.6 percent last year. During the fourth quarter, sales of retail-originated loans declined by 14.9 percent, the sharpest downturn among ... [Includes two data charts]