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...
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 FHFA wants to place a volume cap on mortgages sold through the Fannie/Freddie cash window. An effort to boost lender securitizations or something else?
The market produced $42.61 billion of new ABS in the fourth quarter, a 38.7% decline from the previous three-month period. That brought year-to-date issuance to $202.02 billion, down 11.0% from 2019.