Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued a combined $2.34 billion in CRT securities, excluding reinsurance deals, in the second quarter. That was down 18.0% from the first quarter.

To this point, Acra has contributed to MBS from others and sold off its non-QM production as whole loans.

Demand declined for both purchase mortgages and refinances last week.

Specified pools offer MBS investors a concentration in certain characteristics in contrast to homogenous MBS in the TBA market.

Securitization of FHA loans increased 6.3% to $22.09 billion in July, while VA production was up 11.4% to $15.44 billion.

Sage is building out its mortgage investment business and to this point has focused on acquisitions of mortgage servicing rights.

The assets in the SPV include some type of service contracts, intellectual property, software and hardware.

Correspondent and broker loans were more heavily weighted toward purchase mortgages in the second quarter compared with the retail channel.

Annaly Capital Management is set to issue its 12th expanded-credit MBS of the year.

Select Portfolio Servicing handled servicing on mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $166.70 billion as of the end of June, according to estimates by Inside Mortgage Finance.