MBS-investing REITs boosted their holdings by 10.1 percent on a sequential basis…

Correspondent programs are most dominant in the FHA market, perhaps reflecting a preference among large producers to have recourse…

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie continued to dominate multifamily activity…

Arch MI remained the top private insurer in the third quarter and year-to-date, although its competitors gained some ground…

Correspondents generated 38.8 percent of the market and posted the highest purchase-mortgage concentration, 77.8 percent.

But while Fannie production slumped 11.5 percent, Freddie saw a robust 23.9 percent jump in new issuance in October…

Meanwhile, the indicators point to a drop in production volume for the fourth quarter…

The only top-five servicer to report an increase in volume was Nationstar Mortgage...

Some 6.03 percent of FHA loans were 30-to-60 days past due as of the end of the third quarter, up from 4.51 percent in June.

CRT deals may be popular with legislators since they “de-risk” Fannie and Freddie, but over the long haul the transactions reduce profits for the GSEs, or so critics have charged…