The biggest factor in the small uptick was the significant growth in the two largest ABS portfolios in the industry...

A senior FHFA official said disputes over private mortgage-insurance pricing likely fall under the jurisdiction of state insurance regulators.

The correspondent channel accounted for 32.9 percent of total first-lien originations, up from a 32.4 percent share the previous quarter.

Respondents to the Mortgage Bankers Association's quarterly mortgage banking performance survey reported, in aggregate, a negative margin in the “mid to high single digits” for the first quarter.

Most of the decline in FHA business was in purchase-mortgage lending while VA business took a hit due to reductions in the Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan program.

A key Treasury Department official suggested that issuers of non-agency MBS may someday participate in the common securitization platform being developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

After an extended period of steady growth in its investment in the residential MBS market, the banking industry changed course in early 2018 and reduced its participation in the market, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.

Residential mortgage lending was down in the first quarter of 2018 in every category, and by roughly similar degrees, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Originators also sold $483.13 billion of loans to unaffiliated buyers outside of the agency market…

In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold to the GSEs fell into the highest risk category…