When measured against outstanding first liens calculated by Inside Mortgage Finance – $11.168 trillion – that means $933.6 billion of residential loans have been impaired (to some degree) by the pandemic.

PennyMac executives cited elevated margins across all channels. Also, production volume rose in the more profitable consumer-direct and wholesale-broker platforms...

FHLB advances reached $806.9 billion at March 31, up 25% sequentially...

Bank and thrift holdings of Ginnie Mae MBS rose 5.0% in the first quarter and investment in agency CMOs increased 3.4% from the end of 2019.

At an estimated $106 billion, wholesale-broker production represented 15.8% of first-lien originations in early 2020, the sector’s biggest share since the financial meltdown...

Overall, the jumbo origination share fell to 11.9% in the first quarter from 14.1% in 4Q19...

According to figures compiled by Black Knight, 4.7 million homeowners are in forbearance plans...

A year ago, IRRRL activity totaled just $1.99 billion. In the first three months of 2020, it rocketed to $42.01 billion.

Combined, the two companies would have $310.5 billion of MSRs, ranking 10th overall, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.