Lenders originated an estimated $1.431 trillion of home-purchase loans last year, a solid 13.9% increase from 2019...

Under standards established during the last days of the Trump White House, the patch was set to expire for loans with applications of July 1, 2021 and beyond.

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Wells Fargo was the top jumbo servicer, with $268.73 billion of product at yearend, down 14.2% from the end of 2019.

Chopra said industry participants will be offered a “robust way to comply” with fair lending laws and that wrongdoers will be held accountable...

Mortgages in the $272.3 million MBS have seasoned for an average of six months.

Meanwhile, the CFPB issued a report that warns of widespread evictions and foreclosures once “federal, state, and local pandemic protections come to an end, absent additional public and private action.”

Due partly to the pandemic, which had an outsized negative impact on non-agency lending, the jumbo sector saw its share of overall originations drop to just 9.7% in 2020 from 16.7% in 2019.

At year-end, REIT MBS holdings were down 25.2% from the comparable period in 2019. While industry-wide growth was tepid in the fourth quarter, several institutions upped their investments significantly.