Agency mortgages produced by mortgage brokers actually rose 4.4 percent in the second quarter, even as the overall market was falling 6.1 percent.

It hasn’t been pretty the last couple of weeks for MBS values…

Freddie Mac’s prepayment speeds are no longer faster than Fannie’s…

Mortgage gain-on-sale margins likely will be flat...

One of the biggest development this year has been the growing consistency in issuance of nonprime MBS.

JPM reported mortgage banking income of $1.43 billion in the second quarter, off $103 million from the first quarter and down $495 million compared to 2Q16.

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said the action by Wells was “the most talked about topic” among market participants recently.

The Invictus Opportunity Fund recently raised $35.56 million in capital.

According to Fairholme’s math, the GSEs earn over $15 billion a year, and taxpayers own 80 percent of the companies (via the senior preferred). Berkowitz values the senior stock at $100 billion…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquired $57.17 billion of single-family loans with private MI coverage during the second quarter…