Ginnie Mae issuers securitized $85.4 billion of purchase loans in the third quarter, falling just short of the record $85.4 billion set in the third quarter of last year.

The bright spot was the prime jumbo MBS market where some $2.97 billion of new bonds were issued during the third quarter…

Fannie and Freddie saw a 26.7 percent jump in insured first-timer loans…

The flow of home loans for first-time buyers was up a robust 24.7 percent on a sequential basis…

The GSEs and Ginnie Mae remain the dominant forces in the MBS/ABS market. Their combined single-family issuance hit $346.98 billion in 3Q17…

Roughly 25.6 percent of applications from blacks were denied last year, compared to 15.4 percent for whites.

Purchase-mortgage activity in the GSE market surged 21.5 percent higher in the third quarter – and Fannie recorded a whopping 35.9 percent jump in such business…

S&P rated $69.54 billion of ABS issued in the first half of the year, roughly 60.1 percent of total issuance by dollar volume.

In the second quarter, the top three HEL originators were Bank of America, Chase and Wells Fargo, according to a new ranking from Inside Mortgage Finance…

Residential loan sales by banks totaled $151.79 billion in the second quarter, down 7.3 percent from the previous period.