Reversing at least temporarily a long-running trend in the mortgage market, the four biggest banks in the U.S. expanded their presence in the GSE single-family market in the third quarter of 2016...

A total of $12.41 billion of non-agency MBS were issued during the third quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis, but the market continued to ...

Looks like private MI firms gained market share in the third quarter…

The agency issued a whopping $145.14 billion of single-family MBS during 3Q16…

Single-family MBS issuance jumped 25.7 percent during the third quarter to $440.77 billion…

Freddie Mac’s third-quarter MBS business was up 36.0 percent from the previous period, thanks to a whopping 43.6 percent jump in purchase-mortgage business…

Fund managers have a significant preference for Freddie paper over Fannie instruments…

Interestingly, new originations increased slightly more than the 31.2 percent increase in new applications filed during the year.

In the first six months of 2016, Fannie and Freddie securitized $64.52 billion of single-family mortgages with DTI ratios exceeding 43 percent.

Retail loans had lower debt-to-income ratios as well…