Lenders delivered $93.54 billion of conventional, FHA and VA mortgages with loan amounts exceeding $453,100 into agency mortgage-backed securities last year, a 23.9% decline from 2017.

Ginnie Mae saw a modest increase in issuance of single-family mortgage-backed securities in January, according to an Inside FHA/VA Lending analysis of MBS disclosures ...

Consumer asset-backed securities, including unsecured debt consolidation loans and education financing, remained the most popular ABS category for banks…

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.]

Commercial banks and savings institutions increased their investment in non-mortgage ABS during the fourth quarter of 2018, though the industry’s appetite for the product remained tepid. [Includes two data charts.]

The purchase-mortgage share reached 70.6%, the highest reading since 1990...

Despite the dismal fourth-quarter performance, bank income from mortgage banking was actually up 13.5% from 2017...

Total lender buybacks fell 14.4% last year…

The biggest increase in held-to-maturity and available-for-sale accounts was in agency pass-through securities…

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.]