MBA cited improvements in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans as the driver behind the better readings.

The filings also reveal the frustrations the two mortgage giants are having finding experienced workers during the mortgage boom...

The year just-ended brought two huge changes to the government-insured market. First, the VA established itself as the dominant program...

Fannie inked just $5.26 billion in new credit-risk deals in 2020, and that total included a $425.6 million Connecticut Avenue Securities transaction...

Time-based measures of delinquency rates showed slight declines during the fourth quarter of 2020, as did the foreclosure rate, according to Inside Mortgage Finance's large servicer delinquency index.

Among a diverse group of 20 banks, only one increased mortgage banking income on a sequential basis in the fourth quarter.

Roughly $249.81 billion of newly originated correspondent-generated home loans was securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the fourth quarter, up 20.3% from the prior period. This analysis covers 90.2% of the total agency market...

From a market perspective, all those forbearances are cumulative. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae estimate that one in four of the borrowers who entered into forbearance continued to make their payments...

January agency MBS issuance ranked as the third largest monthly total on the record books. Production was almost exactly double the amount issued in January 2020, before the pandemic led indirectly to a massive refinance wave.

Total servicing held by depository institutions slipped 2.9% during the fourth quarter, shrinking their share of the top-50 market to 48.7%.