The mortgage market was somewhat more top-heavy in the third quarter, with the top 25 lenders accounting for 57.7 percent of total production…

No wonder Ginnie Mae Acting President Michael Bright is nervous: Short-term default rates showed the biggest increases…

Most of the third-quarter slippage occurred in the business-finance category, where ABS production tumbled 51.2 percent...

Fun fact: Nonbanks went over the 60.0 percent threshold in Ginnie Mae market share during the third quarter.

FHA debt-to-income ratios are also deteriorating…

First-time homebuyers accounted for over half of the purchase mortgages securitized by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie in the second quarter, and private MIs are taking a bigger share.

First-lien mortgage originations were up across all product lines in the second quarter of 2018, but the jumbo market saw the biggest gains from the first three months of the year, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and market analysis.

Fannie enjoyed a 29.9 percent quarterly increase in purchase business, nearly double Freddie’s 15.4 percent gain.

The highlight of the third quarter was the steady growth of the nonprime market…