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…

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.