Fannie’s guaranty fee income for single-family and multifamily segments nudged up 0.9 percent from the fourth quarter, while Freddie’s was up 0.4 percent.

U.S. Bank was the only top-five servicer that has been growing its portfolio…

What some bank-watchers may not realize: Most depositories do not factor in personnel and other key expenses when calculating mortgage-banking income…

An estimated $24.52 billion of GSE loans were delivered into MBS during 1Q16 with the servicing rights being taken over by a servicer not affiliated with the loan seller.

As a group, the 45 companies that ranked sixth through 50th had a combined portfolio of $1.668 trillion, equal to 37.5 percent of the market.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie continue to dominate in multifamily mortgage securitization, capturing a combined 93.6 percent of the market in the first quarter.

Quicken Loans, for example, reported a 4.9 percent increase in total originations compared to 4Q15. An estimated 81.0 percent of the nonbank’s production in 2015 was refinance loans…

Roughly $41.42 billion of non-mortgage ABS were issued in the first quarter, up 35.8 percent from the unusually low volume at the end of 2015.

Nonbanks serviced $2.085 trillion of agency MBS at the end of March, a 2.9 percent increase from the fourth quarter.

Wells Fargo was the top seller to the GSEs in the first quarter with $22.75 billion, followed by Quicken Loans ($11.33 billion) and JPMorgan Chase ($6.87 billion).