Fact: Fannie and Freddie securitized more purchase-money mortgages in 2017 – $472.77 billion – than in any year since 2007.

An estimated 69.5 percent of third-quarter mortgage originations were funneled into securities, according to affiliated publication Inside MBS & ABS.

While combined GSE servicing still accounted for a hefty 44.9 percent of single-family mortgages, it has continued to drift lower over the course of 2017…

But the gain was largely attributable to one bank – Wells Fargo – which acquired an agency servicing portfolio of about $51.0 billion from Seneca Mortgage…

The fastest-growing segment is the Ginnie Mae market…

Banks and thrifts continued to retreat from the home-equity business in 3Q17 while credit unions pressed forward…

It was Freddie Mac’s second-largest month of the year...

Agency MBS data indicate that first-time buyers have been key to this year’s surge in purchase-mortgage activity...

Servicing income rose 1.5 percent during the third quarter, although five of the 12 companies reported declines and one of them – PHH Mortgage – posted a loss.

Wells Fargo reported a huge drop in mortgage banking income, but the rest of the top five banks all posted increased earnings from their operations…