The top-five retail mortgage lenders year-to-date: Quicken, Wells Fargo, Chase, Freedom Mortgage and BofA...

The industry-wide servicing-for-others total was down $99.41 billion from June, a 3.0% quarterly decline. With a handful of exceptions, the banking sector has reported quarterly declines in SFO since the end of 2009.

Federally insured depositories added a whopping $115.23 billion to their aggregate single-family MBS portfolio during 3Q20, according to Inside MBS & ABS...

The estimated $822 billion of conventional-conforming lending set a quarterly record and represented 72.1% of the huge third-quarter wave of mortgage originations.

While early-payment default rates showed bigger declines, the rate for loans in the most serious delinquency categories remained relatively high. Across all three agencies, 2.92% of loans were four months or more past due, down slightly from the previous month.