The one bright spot in the residential mortgage market last year was purchase-mortgage lending, which provided at least a faint glow in an otherwise dreary year for lenders. [Includes four data charts.]

Mortgage brokers aren’t taking over the world, but the industry’s share of new production reached a nine-year high in 2018, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. [Includes six data charts.]

The great mortgage M&A boom of 2019, so far, is turning out to be a bust. [Includes one data chart.]

It didn’t really matter much what part of the mortgage market lenders focused on in late 2018, production fell by roughly equal degrees in the major product groups, according to an exclusive new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis. [Includes two data charts.]

The complex business of servicing residential mortgages continued to become more concentrated among a diverse group of industry participants in the fourth quarter of 2018. [Includes two data charts.]