China still ranked second in agency MBS investment, but Japan’s larger portfolio of non-agency MBS and ABS boosted it to second place overall.

The FHFA has been gathering feedback on front-end transactions and will take that into account when considering the structure of future CRTs…

The top 100 lenders produced a hefty $1.622 trillion in first-lien mortgages last year, including their correspondent and wholesale-broker programs…

The GSEs have developed proposals to more closely align their mortgage insurance master policies with their reps-and-warranties policies, which will be reviewed by the FHFA this year.

Mortgage brokers accounted for 12.9 percent of agency production.

However, this group of nonbank lender/servicers is hardly homogenous…

During the fourth quarter of 2016, lenders repurchased just $207.31 million of home loans, a 37.0 percent decline from the third quarter.

S&P finished a close second with a 53.6 percent market share.

At the end of 2016, the supply of outstanding home-equity loans fell to $595.4 billion from $607.9 billion the year prior…

Mortgage brokers earned their biggest market share in the Ginnie Mae sector…