Roughly $12.50 billion of agency mortgages securitized during the first quarter with some form of primary MI were tied to Golden State properties.

Nonbank mortgage firms increased their servicing portfolios by 3.0 percent during 1Q17, more than double the 1.3 percent increase in total Fannie/Freddie servicing during that period.

Matrix Financial Services edged out Lakeview Loan Servicing as the top acquirer of servicing rights through co-issuance deals…

Although most of the major non-agency segments posted solid increases, the scratch-and-dent market was the star of the show.

Nonbanks serviced $2.418 trillion of agency loans at the end of the first quarter, up 21.6 percent from a year ago…

Even though PennyMac fared slightly worse than the total market, its first-quarter downturn was less severe than Wells Fargo’s.

A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis reveals that the supply of mortgages originated in the wholesale-broker market fell 42.8 percent during 1Q17…

Single-family volume was down from the unusually high level in the fourth quarter of last year…

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie securitized $156.80 billion of refi loans during 1Q17, down 35.1 percent sequentially, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

How much slack can the purchase market pick up? We’re about to find out…