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...

Some $32.26 billion of securities backed by non-agency mortgages were issued in the third quarter.

We all remember what happened in 2007 when home prices collapsed and all that equity vanished...

Some lending shops are still looking to hire loan officers.

On a sequential basis, agency issuance fell 13.8%...

Over the four-month period from May to August, Fannie and Freddie purchased $46.18 billion of IPL and SHL loans, down 47.9% from the first four months of the year.