Nearly 75% of loans in the MBS were subject to exterior-only appraisals.

The comeback in the July-to-September period was led by JPMorgan Chase, which brought $2.12 billion of prime non-agency MBS to the market spread across four deals...

After setting new monthly records in July and August, the agency MBS market cooled slightly in September.

AmeriHome, according to its S-1, earned $275.0 million during the first six months of 2020, slightly less than its combined profit for 2019 and 2018 ($279.5 million.)

Talk about liquidity: the document reveals with this master repurchase deal under its belt, Quicken now has “total funding capacity”of $27.5 billion.

In the first half of 2020, Caliber posted net income of $275.3 million compared to a loss of $59.4 million in the comparable period last year.

The typical cost for a lender to implement the TRID rule: $146 per unit, accounting for 2% of the average origination cost.

Some 147 institutions will benefit from the proposal, according to estimates by the CFPB.

This official speculated that perhaps Calabria was referring to the companies’ corporate culture before the financial crisis, when the politically connected secondary market giants were widely feared on Capitol Hill.

As mortgage banking veteran Bill Dallas of Finance of America put it: “This is clearly a unicorn year for the industry — I’ve never seen anything like it.”