The agencies issued $304.15 billion of new single-family MBS in February — the fifth straight month over the $300 billion mark, a level never seen until August of last year.

Mike Baldwin: He added: “Productivity is up along with the volume, so we have been very pleased. I really can’t cite any challenges that arose from working remotely. We’ll continue to be flexible.”

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.

What goes up, sometimes comes down.

PennyMac is hardly alone, but its disclosure reveals just how profitable the strategy can be...

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.

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.

Refinances accounted for 55.4% of Ginnie volume last month. Purchase-mortgage business was down 2.2% from December...