The GSEs securitized $111.31 billion of purchase loans in the second quarter, a 21.5 percent jump from the first quarter.

Fitch was on top, although both companies had equal shares at 36.5 percent…

Purchase-mortgage volume has been gaining speed since bottoming out in February…

Banks, thrifts and credit unions accounted for 50.5 percent of first-lien mortgage production by the top 100 lenders in the first quarter, according to survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance…

Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-ID, listed maintaining the TBA market and the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage among his important principles for reform…

The lag effect was particularly noticeable in the conventional-conforming market…

Bank of America continued to dominate second lien lending with $4.05 billion of originations during the first quarter of 2017…

Not all depositories are retreating from the MSR market. The credit union industry reported a combined $197.6 billion in mortgage servicing for others at March 31, up 1.5 percent…

Counterparty risk appears to be on the mind of the FHFA…

There will likely be more buyback demands on the 2015 book of business in the future, but the total may not ever get to even 0.1 percent of issuance.