Jumbo Denial Rates Fell to 11% Last Year May 4, 2022 Brandon Ivey Wells Fargo received the highest number of applications for jumbos and had an overall jumbo denial rate of 14.3%.Read More
An Earnings Decline at Fannie, Interim CEO Benson Tempers Expectations May 3, 2022 Paul Muolo and Dennis Hollier Fannie's interim CEO David Benson predicts a recession is coming next year...Read More
Ginnie Delinquencies Decline in 1Q22 May 3, 2022 Monica Hogan Late payments on FHA loans narrowed by 78 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2021...Read More
Expanded-Credit MBS Issuance Hits Record in 1Q22 May 2, 2022 Brandon Ivey The increase in expanded-credit MBS issuance in 1Q22 was driven by non-QMs...Read More
A Particularly Brutal Production Quarter for Fintech Better.com May 2, 2022 Paul Muolo Given steeply higher rates and much narrower lending profits the past six months, Better’s journey to the NYSE has been anything but smooth.Read More
Blow-out Earnings for Mr. Cooper. Reason: Huge MSR Gains April 29, 2022 Paul Muolo And let us now praise MSRs...Read More
Buyouts from Ginnie MBS Revert Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels April 29, 2022 Brandon Ivey Another factor: the drop in repurchases appears to be driven by improvements in delinquency rates.Read More
Mortgage Originations Take a Beating in Early 2022 April 28, 2022 John Bancroft Among the top 10 funders, the declines were mostly brutal, ranging from a low of -21.1% to a high of -37.2%.Read More
A Strong 1Q22 Profit for Freddie April 28, 2022 Paul Muolo Freddie took in new business of $207.0 billion in the January-March period, down 23.6% sequentially...Read More
Grapevine: Figuring Out the Fed / Dividends About to Get Squeezed? April 28, 2022 Paul Muolo Is the worst of the mortgage rate increases over? Hard to say. Meanwhile, publicly traded nonbanks may be forced to curtail their dividend payments to common shareholders.Read More
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