At the same time, sales of refi loans in the highest-risk category fell 5.0%. Such loans have LTVs of 81% to 97% and FICO scores of 620 to 699.

Despite what looks like good news, Black Knight warned there are another 800K forbearances reaching the end of their initial six-month terms over the next 30 days...

The agencies securitized almost $592 billion of single-family refi loans, a 17.8% increase from 2Q. Refis accounted for 64.7% of the market during the third quarter. However, purchase-mortgage activity increased more in percentage terms...

The 10-year Treasury currently is offering a yield of 0.77%, the highest reading since early June…

DBRS saw a relatively small 5.7% decline in MBS ratings from the first to the second quarter, and actually upped its ratings of expanded-credit mortgage MBS...

One thing seems universal: originators are swamped with applications and inquiries, but are short of workers...

Year over year, full-time positions have grown by an impressive at 20.0%...

Fannie and Freddie securitized $556.2 billion of single-family loans that were aged three months or less when the MBS was issued, a whopping 81.0% increase from the prior quarter.

MBA says more than 70 percent of loans in forbearance are now in an extension...

The comeback in the July-to-September period was led by JPMorgan Chase, which brought $2.12 billion of prime non-agency MBS to the market spread across four deals...