A ranking of primary mortgage insurance for purchase mortgages by state in the first quarter of 2018. Includes private mortgage insurance, FHA, VA and USDA Rural Housing.

The upside for private MIs is that their purchase business started off 2018 at a more robust level than last year…

On the plus side, Wedbush sees mortgage servicers and home builders benefitting…

The nonbank locked $2.3 billion of purchase mortgages in March, up 52.0 percent from the prior month.

So far, Bill Dallas has shunned all media requests for comment.

Chase was the top-ranked ARM producer in 2017…

Demand for agency product remains strong, but the investor base is beginning to shift somewhat, said MBS Highway Principal Barry Habib...

Consultant Rick Roque: “There are many ways to structure a ‘transition’ bonus, and most bonuses are only partially paid up front with the rest based on closings over a period of time.”

The lender has backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures and unidentified banks…

Issuance of new single-family Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities fell sharply in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new Inside FHA/VA Lending ranking and analysis. The agency issued $92.58 billion in MBS backed by forward mortgages during the first three months of 2018. That was down 14.8 percent from the previous three-month period and represented the lowest quarterly total since early 2015. The 1Q figure is based on truncated loan amounts reported in Ginnie’s loan-level MBS disclosures. Reports with unrounded single-family loan amounts show a total of $95.75 billion in first-quarter MBS issuance, including FHA reverse mortgages. The loan-level data reveal that production fell 6.9 percent from February to March, when just $28.21 billion of Ginnie single-family securities were issued. That was the lowest monthly volume since February 2015. Both the FHA and VA programs saw significant ... [Charts]