Thanks to strong growth in the agency market, the supply of single-family MBS outstanding continued to grow over the final three months of 2016, a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals.

The volume of home mortgages outstanding continued to grow during the final three months of 2016, no thanks to the commercial banking industry.

The banking industry continued to backpedal away from the business of servicing home mortgages for other investors during 2016, according to an exclusive new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call-report data....

Correspondent production of conventional-conforming mortgages increased by 51.9 percent from 2015 to 2016.

Virtually all the shrinkage in 2016 took place among the four megabanks with over $1 trillion in assets: Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank.

Commercial banks and thrifts reported a combined $123.8 billion of ABS on their balance sheets at the end of last year, a 3.7 percent drop from the third quarter…

The agency share of total jumbo production reached its highest level in 2009 and 2010, immediately after “emergency” high-cost loan limits were put in place…

But the numbers need to be put into perspective: Agency MBS production in the first two months of 2017 was up 36.3 percent from the same period last year…

Wells Fargo once again dominated the purchase business with $135.5 billion funded in 2016, more than double its closest competitor, JPMorgan Chase…

Fannie Mae cut its portfolio of Fannie MBS by 42.9 percent last year...