But there is one caveat: The VA sector is one business from which banks are not yet running away from…

Jumbo lending has a much more retail focus: the vast majority of loans are originated for portfolio or, in the case of non-depositories, sale to a bank or other portfolio investor.

Nonbank mortgage servicers expanded their footprint in agency mortgage serving rights during the third quarter of 2016, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis.

Issuance of non-mortgage ABS increased by 25.5 percent from the second quarter of 2016 to the third, thanks to significant increases in several asset categories, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking.

Meanwhile, loan brokers tended to originate larger loans, averaging $264,646 for purchase mortgages…

The private MI share of agency purchase loans rose from 26.9 percent in the second quarter to 27.8 percent in the third.

Fannie Mae had the bigger quarter in CRT activity, more than doubling its second-quarter total with a record $2.52 billion of issuance…

The MMIF had $30.86 billion in capital resources at the end of fiscal 2015. HUD does not provide updated figures on the fund’s capital resources through the year…

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 ...