Lenders delivered $27.21 billion of purchase loans into Ginnie MBS in May, up 7.5% from the prior month.

Banks and thrifts held $2.52 trillion of first liens in portfolio as of the end of March.

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The growth came largely from purchase-mortgage lending.

Among the top 10 ARM lenders in the January-March corridor, just one was a nonbank: Rocket Mortgage.

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Brokers accounted for 19.1% of first-lien originations in the first quarter, up from 17.5% in the previous quarter.

Most of the increase in Freddie buybacks in the first quarter of this year came from loans that were securitized in 2023, which totaled $219.1 million and represented 65.8% of Freddie repurchases in early 2024.

DTI ratio was a factor in 38.45% of denials of applications for purchase mortgages in 2023.

Agency MBS held in portfolio at REITs that focus on mortgage assets slid 1.8% to $168.47 billion as of the end of the first quarter of 2024.