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...

After setting new monthly records in July and August, the agency MBS market cooled slightly in September.

Payoff removals fell 0.4% from July to August, and by 2.8% for FHA loans. The VA program, which sees much heavier refinance activity, recorded a 1.9% increase in payoff removals, edging up to its highest level of the year.

AmeriHome, according to its S-1, earned $275.0 million during the first six months of 2020, slightly less than its combined profit for 2019 and 2018 ($279.5 million.)

Talk about liquidity: the document reveals with this master repurchase deal under its belt, Quicken now has “total funding capacity”of $27.5 billion.

There was a huge gain in the securitization rate for conventional-conforming loans, up from 73.0% in the first quarter to 86.2% in the second.