JMP Securities has a “market perform” rating on Impac Mortgage, the publicly traded nonbank that’s trying to carve out a space for itself in the non-QM sector but can’t resist the temptation of reaching for GSE refis...

The biggest growth in the agency mortgage market during the third quarter of 2019 came from increases in refinance lending…

Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled $50.4 billion in August, the best monthly reading of the year…

First Republic, JPMorgan Chase and CitiMortgage led the IO pack during the second quarter. Interest-only originations tend to be concentrated in the jumbo space...

Quicken Loans denied 29.6% of applications for jumbo purchase-mortgages in 2018 and denied nearly half of the jumbo refi applications it received.

In late 2018, the FHFA published a report on g-fees paid from 2013 to 2017, stratifying it by five different lender cohorts…

Recent Treasury Department figures show foreign holdings of agency MBS grew by $42.9 billion from March to June…

Rising real estate values translate into more home equity for consumers, but that doesn’t mean they will tap it…

Combined, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae accounted for 63.0% of total home mortgage debt outstanding at the end of June.

If the QM "patch" disappears as scheduled in early 2021, some lenders might see originations plummet. At least, that's the fear...