Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitized $59.07 billion of single-family loans with private mortgage insurance coverage during the third quarter of 2015, reflecting the increase in purchase-mortgage production, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. The flow of PMI-insured loans to the government-sponsored enterprises’ mortgage-backed securities program was up 12.3 percent from the second quarter, and it was likely the biggest such volume since the housing market collapsed in 2008. The data come from loan-level MBS disclosures, which Fannie started providing in 2013. The increased volume of privately-insured mortgages came...[Includes two data tables]

In the past year and a half, banks have started holding an increasing share of conventional conforming mortgages in portfolio instead of securitizing them through the government-sponsored enterprises. Industry analysts suggest GSE guaranty fees are the reason. In the first half of 2015, 91.6 percent of the estimated $442 billion in originations of conventional conforming mortgages were included in mortgage-backed securities. In 2013, 97.0 percent of the estimated $1.17 trillion in conventional conforming originations were securitized, according to an Inside Mortgage Finance analysis. “Securitizing conforming mortgages in agency MBS has become...

In the wake of large losses and insurance claim discrepancies stemming from the financial crisis, the government-sponsored enterprises and mortgage lenders are set to reap the benefits of new private mortgage insurer standards that formally take effect Jan. 1, 2016. Much tighter MI underwriting, coupled with improved insurer due diligence and stringent capital requirements, will improve claim payouts on defaulted loans, according to a recent report by Moody’s Investors Service, adding that policies written under updated GSE requirements will result in lower losses on the GSEs’ risk-sharing transactions and master insurance policies. The updated requirements for master policies give...

The trade group quickly found a villain for the ugly reading: the Oct. 3, 2015, effective date of the CFPB’s TRID rule.

As one JPM competitor noted: “It’s no surprise that correspondent led the way for them. They own the correspondent jumbo market.”

In 3Q, BofA funded $13.71 billion of first liens, a 14 percent sequential decline. All of it came through the retail channel.

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Bank returns on mortgage activities turned sharply negative during the recession of 2007 through 2009 before rebounding and becoming consistently positive by early 2011.

Freddie said that demand has kept pace with new supply, calming concerns that growth might start to decelerate.

Actual GSE sales volume for the top five was down 2.2 percent from the second quarter, but overall Fannie/Freddie business was down slightly more, 3.8 percent.