Nonbank mortgage firms increased their servicing portfolios by 3.0 percent during 1Q17, more than double the 1.3 percent increase in total Fannie/Freddie servicing during that period.

Matrix Financial Services edged out Lakeview Loan Servicing as the top acquirer of servicing rights through co-issuance deals…

Although most of the major non-agency segments posted solid increases, the scratch-and-dent market was the star of the show.

Nonbanks serviced $2.418 trillion of agency loans at the end of the first quarter, up 21.6 percent from a year ago…

Even though PennyMac fared slightly worse than the total market, its first-quarter downturn was less severe than Wells Fargo’s.

A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis reveals that the supply of mortgages originated in the wholesale-broker market fell 42.8 percent during 1Q17…

Single-family volume was down from the unusually high level in the fourth quarter of last year…

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie securitized $156.80 billion of refi loans during 1Q17, down 35.1 percent sequentially, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

How much slack can the purchase market pick up? We’re about to find out…

China still ranked second in agency MBS investment, but Japan’s larger portfolio of non-agency MBS and ABS boosted it to second place overall.