The $81.35 billion in first-quarter Fannie/Freddie refi business was the lowest such total since the third quarter of 2014…

MGIC, Radian, Essent and National MI all announced that they would no longer insure loans with DTI ratios over 45 percent and credit scores below 700…

Acquiring government-insured loans from correspondent lenders has been a huge part of the Ginnie Mae market in recent years…

Fitch had a good year too, rating $17.51 billion of non-agency MBS…

Fannie Mae adjusted its automated underwriting services last summer to make more loans with higher debt-to-income ratios eligible for approval without lenders needing to provide compensating factors.

The mortgage servicing business racked up its third consecutive year of steady growth in 2017.

GSE buyback volume fell 11.6 percent from the 2016 total, including an 11.4 percent drop from the third to the fourth quarter of last year.

The 4,710 small mortgage lenders wouldn’t have to report new data points sought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for originations in 2018 and beyond, according to an analysis by Inside the CFPB.

Rising rates bolstered servicing values late in the year, but reduced production results…

The fastest-growing program continued to be Ginnie Mae MBS, which shot up 8.2 percent for the year…