The VA program saw the sharpest spike in refi activity, shooting up 69.7% from the second quarter.

Expanded-credit MBS issuance (the sum of nonprime and Alt A) hit $9.90 billion in the third quarter, a 60.8% jump from the previous period.

There's a strong demand out there for mortgage processors, but overall, residential-related hiring has been tepid...

On purchase mortgages, African-Americans were denied 17.5% of the time compared to 8.0% for non-Hispanic whites…

The FHA program saw the slowest gain in FTHB business, up just 13.6% from the previous period…

Overall, banks and thrifts sold $165.10 billion through their mortgage banking operations during the second quarter, up 34.5% sequentially…

The gain in retail market share came at the expense of both correspondent and wholesale-broker originations.

However, it was a different picture in terms of complaints regarding credit reports…

In the second quarter, lenders funded $565 billion, an eye-popping sequential gain of 59.2%. It’s anticipated that the fourth quarter will yield the same, if not more.

Small and mid-sized mortgage bankers saw a 65.7% jump in GSE loan sales, pushing their share of the market 2.1 percentage points higher…