A big part of Freddie’s sharp increase in issuance came from the $8.00 billion of seasoned loans the company securitized in July.

Although all 13 firms reported positive earnings on their origination and sales activity, many noted that production-related revenue did not keep pace...

It was the group’s lowest MBS portfolio valuation since the fourth quarter of 2011.

The sharp increase in purchase-mortgage lending during 2Q helped float the private MI boat higher.

Some lenders, such as PennyMac, have promoted the no-downpayment feature in their media advertisements.

In the second quarter of 2015, 66.4 percent of loans sold to the GSEs had credit scores of 740 or higher.

Over the winter, the VA program had quietly become a much more significant factor in the government-insured market...

The last time Ginnie Mae was the top agency issuer was in January of 2009...

Conforming-jumbos accounted for almost 10 percent of GSE business on single-unit properties in the first half of this year...

At the midway point of 2015, the group’s $8.061 billion in year-to-date mortgage-banking income was up 15.1 percent from the first six months of 2014.