With $269.01 billion in flow MI business for the year, private MIs recorded a modest 0.6 percent increase from 2016.

After surging to an unusually high level of 26.6 percent in 2016, market share for the VA home-loan guaranty program eased to 24.1 percent last year…

The budget proposal calls for exempting “small lenders” – companies that generate about 20 percent of FHA business – from the IT fee.

The correspondent share of the FHA market rose to 48.6 percent last year…

January volume was the lowest monthly total since May 2017…

The conventional-conforming market held up relatively well in the fourth quarter, with origination volume easing by just 0.7 percent…

Although Freddie Mac had a higher average credit score than its rival GSE, Fannie Mae had slightly lower average DTI and LTV ratios…

Many lenders cited increased competition in a declining market for the weaker results…

It was the GSEs’ weakest monthly output since May 2017…

Fannie and Freddie issued just $2.01 billion of structured credit notes during the fourth quarter, a sharp 44.5 percent drop from the previous period…