In general, most of the delinquent loan buying has been done by the megabanks and top-ranked direct-FHA funders like Quicken Loans and PennyMac...

Reverse Mortgage Funding maintained its second-place position but trailed far behind with $743.5 million. Finance of America, which is controlled by the Blackstone Group, moved up a notch to third place with $577.0 million.

Kroll Bond Rating Service had a strong year over the first nine months of 2020, with a 12.4% increase in business from the same period in 2019...

The highest year-over-year gains were reported in Phoenix (12.7%), Seattle (11.7%), and San Diego (11.6%). Meanwhile, New York (6.0%), Chicago (6.3%) and Las Vegas (6.4%) lagged behind...

Still, the overall share of ARMs is declining. The loans accounted for 7.5% of first-lien originations in the first nine months compared to 10.8% for full year 2019.

Prepayments outpaced new production, prompting a decline in jumbo servicing volume.

FHA/VA originations through the correspondent channel increased by 48.5% during the third quarter, bringing the channel's market share to 31.3%.

The figures come from a variety of lenders that generated $570.6 billion of home loans during the third quarter, roughly half the market.

The combined market for Fannie and Freddie single-family MBS grew 3.7% in the third quarter and a hefty 9.5% over the past year.

A boon to subservicers: small- to medium-sized lenders hanging onto their MSRs...