Fannie’s whole-loan portfolio increased 2.8% during the quarter, while Freddie’s grew 3.8%...

Quicken Loans and loanDepot were the other nonbanks among the top five sources of collateral for these deals...

Velocity resumed origination activity in September, funding $63 million of investment-property loans in October.

Ginnie buyouts of delinquent mortgages are a common practice – but it takes readily available cash, or a line  of credit...

This summer, non-cash-flowing loans as a share of aggregate current balance of non-agency MBS ranged from around 5% of post-2010 prime non-agency MBS to as high as 26% for legacy deals...

Eight of the top 10 Ginnie servicers as of the end of September had smaller portfolios than at the midway point in the year.

Much of the third-quarter rebound came from securitization of mortgages on industrial properties.

The FHA share of the insured agency market fell to 22.7%, down from 23.5% in the second quarter and 28.8% a year ago.

Loans in the $570.2 million MBS were originated by Citadel Servicing Corp. and have seasoned for an average of 20 months.

First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. restarted its Maverick non-QM program and New Residential Investment plans to resume non-QM lending shortly.