First-time homebuyers accounted for over half of the purchase mortgages securitized by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie in the second quarter, and private MIs are taking a bigger share.

First-lien mortgage originations were up across all product lines in the second quarter of 2018, but the jumbo market saw the biggest gains from the first three months of the year, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and market analysis.

Fannie enjoyed a 29.9 percent quarterly increase in purchase business, nearly double Freddie’s 15.4 percent gain.

The highlight of the third quarter was the steady growth of the nonprime market…

The correspondent share of the market rose to 39.5 percent, the highest it has been in years...

On a year-to-date basis, the volume of private MI loans delivered into GSE MBS was up 9.8 percent from the first nine months of 2017…

The commercial-banking sector isn’t running away from the mortgage-servicing business the way it did a few years ago, but aggregate figures show the industry continues to favor whole loans over mortgage servicing rights.

Issuers pooled $19.63 billion of FHA and VA refi loans during the third quarter, down 11.6 percent from the previous period…

Purchase mortgages accounted for 71.4 percent of third-quarter GSE business…