Total agency single-family MBS climbed 0.9% during the third quarter, hitting $8.913 trillion.

Ginnie continued to set the pace as its single-family servicing grew by 2.4% in the third quarter.

S. 3502, the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act, received prompt support from a number of industry trade groups.

Ginnie remained the fastest growing player in the MBS market in the third quarter. Mutual funds, money-market funds and insurance companies continue to play important roles in demand for single-family MBS. (Includes two data tables.)

Whole-loan portfolios among insured depositories grew 1.1% during the third quarter, while those institutions pared their servicing-for-others activity by 0.2%. (Includes two data tables.)

When it comes to MBS issuance, it was a third-place finish for Fannie Mae...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw a combined 11.7% increase in securitization of high-balance loans that exceeded the national baseline limit of $726,200 for one-unit mortgages during the third quarter.

Freddie stood out as the only agency to do more single-family business in November than in the previous month, and some of that was because several top sellers shifted some GSE business away from Fannie.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie all saw sturdy increases in agency-eligible high-balance loans during the third quarter. The non-agency jumbo market remains significantly bigger, but production fell.

Fitch rated $31.89 billion of non-agency MBS through the first nine months of 2023, which equaled 74.6% of total rated non-agency MBS issuance.