One caveat: Only the most well-heeled companies came to market, leaving originators with weaker prospects to tap their bank lines or enter into new or amended master repurchase agreements...

The Fed added $135.87 billion to its agency MBS holdings during the second quarter. That accounted for just over half of the growth in agency MBS outstanding during that period.

Nonbank mortgage processors serviced $4.977 trillion of securitized home loans as of June 30, up 2.4% from March and hefty 20.2% gain from a year ago.

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While most top-ranked lenders saw aggressive growth in home-equity conversion mortgages during 2Q21, others experienced a slowdown...

Freedom Mortgage was the top retail government lender in the first half of 2021...

New HELOCs and second mortgages were up 24% in the second quarter.

Retail, correspondent and wholesale lending declined in the conventional-conforming and government-insured markets in the second quarter and increased in the jumbo sector.

Some $20 billion of GSE-eligible mortgages are on track to flow into non-agency MBS this year.

Jumbo lending is catching on with nonbanks, which are providing most of the collateral for non-agency prime jumbo securitizations.