The third quarter saw a sharp increase in refinance originations that appeared to give a bigger boost to government and conventional-conforming production than the jumbo market got.

Freddie Mac posted a 45.9 percent market share for November – 10.2 percentage points higher than in the previous month…

One notable change in the market over the past three years has been the gradual increase in cash-out refi lending.

Expanding the credit box will be a major theme in the GSEs’ priorities for 2017, according to the FHFA.

The ABS market itself shrank slightly during the third quarter, according to data reported by the Securities Industry and Finance Markets Association...

The banking industry still has a hefty $4.59 billion of reserves for future repurchase expenses…

In the broker/wholesale channel, United Wholesale Mortgage and Caliber Home Loans posted strong growth rates…

Commercial banks and savings institutions racked up $5.18 billion in mortgage-banking income during the third quarter of 2016, a huge 44.6 percent increase over the three-month period ending in June, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call report data.

Commercial banks and savings institutions boosted their holdings of residential MBS substantially during the third quarter, a new analysis of call-report data by Inside MBS & ABS reveals.

Most of the life in third-quarter mortgage originations came from the tail end of the refinance boom.