Purchase-mortgage activity in the GSE market surged 21.5 percent higher in the third quarter – and Fannie recorded a whopping 35.9 percent jump in such business…

S&P rated $69.54 billion of ABS issued in the first half of the year, roughly 60.1 percent of total issuance by dollar volume.

In the second quarter, the top three HEL originators were Bank of America, Chase and Wells Fargo, according to a new ranking from Inside Mortgage Finance…

Residential loan sales by banks totaled $151.79 billion in the second quarter, down 7.3 percent from the previous period.

MUFG Union Bank was the top wholesale lender in the jumbo market by a wide margin.

All of the uptick in seller buybacks came from Fannie, where repurchases surged 21.5 percent from the first to the second quarter.

Commercial banks were one of the most active buyers of residential MBS during the April-June cycle...

It marked the third straight quarter in which depositories raised their share among the top-100 mortgage originators.

But the non-agency jumbo market saw a healthy 18.6 percent increase in originations…

Roughly 27.3 percent of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans pooled in securities in the first half of 2017 were a month old at issuance, and 6.4 percent were two or three months old.