The active non-QM funders include ACC Mortgage, A&D Mortgage, First National Bank of America, Newfi Lending and Silvergate Bank. (Silvergate, up until recently, was also a warehouse provider of non-QM products.)

First Horizon wants FICOs of at least 670 and will only provide credit on conventional and government loans.

Impac had hoped to resume lending again after a shutdown of two weeks. But that was then...

Overall, mortgage citations accounted for only 8% of total gripes...

Only 11.22% of purchase-money mortgages purchased by the GSEs in the first quarter had FICO credit scores below 700. That was down from 12.05% in the fourth quarter and 14.66% a year ago.

Believe it or not, purchase loan applications increased 16.4% in Washington, one of the first states ravished by the pandemic...

For certain residential mortgages, including refis, banks can delay obtaining an appraisal for up to 120 days after a loan closes.

In the home equity department, BofA actually increased lending to $3.02 billion in the first quarter from $2.99 billion in 4Q19.

On the servicing front the news was grim. Wells revealed that its massive residential servicing portfolio declined in value by 29.4% from the prior period: $8.13 billion at March 31 compared to $11.52 billion at yearend.

In a nutshell, depository institutions managed to increase their sales of refinance loans sequentially while IMBs saw a drop...