However, removals for loan modification or foreclosure processing edged up 2.2% to $11.14 billion in the third quarter.

MBS guarantee fee pricing has become more level between the two GSEs since the uniform MBS was launched in 2019...

Most of the major bulk buyers recorded big gains during the third quarter. Ocwen Financial closed some $57.22 billion of bulk purchases...

Rocket sold $40.85 billion of agency MSRs during the third quarter after sitting out the prior period...

Prime non-agency MBS issuance jumped 51.9% from the second quarter to $26.58 billion in the third. Some $14.91 billion came from deals backed by traditional jumbo loans that exceed agency loan limits...

Lower all-around at Wells Fargo: home lending, mortgage servicing rights, branches and employees...

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie securitized $345.72 billion of loans with some form of primary MI during the third quarter, an 8.3% drop from the previous period.

One interesting side note: The bank grew its third-party servicing portfolio to $509.3 billion, up from $463.9 billion at mid-year, a sequential gain of 9.8%.

Seniors — age 62 or older — filed 1,987 mortgage gripes during the first six months of the year, up 36.1% from the same period last year...

Mods accounted for 16.2% of FHA loans in 3Q21 Ginnie MBS...