JPMorgan Chase topped the ranking with $413 million in repurchases for the third quarter...

On Friday, Black Knight released its weekly forbearance report, declaring that 5.2% of all mortgages were in some form of relief, a 92,000 unit decline for the seven-day period ending Jan. 5. The data analytics vendor said despite what looked like positive news, it cited a “troubling slowdown in the rate of improvement.”

There was a huge push for FHA autonomy by former Commissioner Nicolas Retsinas during the Clinton years, but it went nowhere.

What's more, the GSEs upped their share of the agency market to 75.8%, and dominated the overall single-family market as well...

Late last week, Black Knight released its measurement: 2.83 million mortgages in COVID-related relief for the seven-day period ending Dec. 29. The FHA/VA (GNMA) reading increased by 11,000 units.

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.

To date, the Irvine, CA-based nonbank has raised $81.5 million through the sale of preferred equity...

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 signature averts a shutdown of the federal government and paves the way for stimulus payments while Trump pressures Congress to send even bigger checks.