According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, consumers owe $11.168 trillion on their first liens. If the new MBA forbearance reading is applied to that number, $883.3 billion of mortgages are in need of assistance, temporary or otherwise.

Top contributors to the deal include 5th Street Capital with a 42.8% share and Sprout Mortgage (41.0%). Servicing is being divided among Specialized Loan Servicing (62.4%), Fay Servicing (31.4%) and Lima One Capital (6.2%).

The mortgage employment reading, while strong, trails the national numbers by one month.

Officials at PennyMac said the nonbank is prepared to handle servicing-advance requirements and that origination activity remains strong...

Fannie's lender-letter states: "We are temporarily suspending bulk transactions"...

GSE and government-insured loans accounted for 86.1% of the market in early 2020, a period that featured a historic nosedive in mortgage interest rates and frenetic volatility caused by the pandemic...

The average credit score for VA loans rose 1.3 points from the fourth quarter to 716.1 in the first three months of 2020. That’s the highest reading since loan-level MBS became available from Ginnie in 2014.

In addition, Fannie and Freddie have helped reduce face-to-face interactions during the closing process by expanding the use of powers of attorney and remote online notarizations.

Citadel currently is not originating but services a roughly $3.5 billion portfolio.