Originators also sold $483.13 billion of loans to unaffiliated buyers outside of the agency market…

In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold to the GSEs fell into the highest risk category…

It’s not clear if the REIT sector will amp up its participation in credit-risk transfer deals offered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

Arch maintained its large market share lead in insurance-in-force, while Radian ranked first in terms of new insurance written…

The average credit score for FHA loans in Ginnie MBS issued during the first quarter was 671.1, the lowest level since the agency began reporting loan-level data…

Compared to March 2017, the combined nonbank servicing business was up 14.7 percent, while banks in the top 50 saw a 2.4 percent decline from a year ago.

Freddie Mac had the biggest monthly increase at 22.9 percent…

Freddie CEO Donald Layton told Inside MBS & ABS that implementation of the FHFA directive “has largely been complete.”

Matrix Financial Services is another nonbank rapidly climbing the GSE servicing ranks…

In 1Q18, the top three coissuance sellers of servicing rights were Fairway Independent Mortgage, Finance of America, and Movement Mortgage.