Roughly $249.81 billion of newly originated correspondent-generated home loans was securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the fourth quarter, up 20.3% from the prior period. This analysis covers 90.2% of the total agency market...

CMLA’s Rob Zimmer said what he finds so perplexing about the cap is that “no one saw this coming”…

January agency MBS issuance ranked as the third largest monthly total on the record books. Production was almost exactly double the amount issued in January 2020, before the pandemic led indirectly to a massive refinance wave.

The deal is sized at $146.2 million while previous MBS from Deephaven averaged closed to $400 million in volume.

The volume of FHA loans was down 4.2% for the year, including a 1.8% drop from the third to the fourth quarter. But at $1.114 trillion, FHA loans continued to represent the dominant slice of the Ginnie pie...

Servicers are buying delinquent FHA/VA mortgages out of Ginnie MBS pools, placing the notes in portfolio as part of a reclamation strategy.

Despite the achievement of the ranking, UWM’s contribution to jumbo MBS actually declined by 4.4% on an annual basis last year while overall non-agency jumbo securitization increased...

Agency multifamily MBS programs accounted for 72.2% of total commercial mortgage securitization in 2020, their most dominant share since the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis.

The $608.83 million deal issued by JPMorgan Chase in 2019 is stocked with non-QMs.

Liquidations of loans from Ginnie Mae MBS nearly doubled in 2020 on an annual basis.