According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, all home lenders produced $700.0 billion of product in the third quarter. If the rest of the industry’s results emulate the numbers reported by Wells and JPM, it’s entirely possible that 4Q may have been better than many analysts predicted.

The IPO of nonprime lender Velocity Financial could price later this week or next…

Including securities backed by FHA home-equity conversion mortgages, total Ginnie single-family MBS issuance hit $508.62 billion, also a record.

However, agency MBS was the star of the structured finance show in 2019…

As we reported a few weeks ago: Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, a third-party non-QM lender, anticipates boosting loan originations by 66% next year to $5 billion…

Meanwhile, when it comes to the top seller/issuers, Quicken Loans was not too far behind market leader Wells Fargo: $126.9 billion to the megabank’s $132.4 billion…

The credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Transunion and Experian) continue to draw a large chunk of the complaints…

As far as the rankings are concerned, not much changed at the very top during the third quarter. Cenlar once again ranked first…

New MBS production was up 32.0% from 2018 as an unexpected wave of refinancing business continued to pour into the secondary market.