For the first time in six years, the four surviving private MIs reported a combined profit on their domestic MI business during 2Q13.

Most of the apartment loans being securitized go through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

Mortgage lenders saw a noticeable decline in refinancing of underwater Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed...

Bank of America continues to drop servicing and dropped to third in the ranking of servicers as of the second quarter of 2013.

Mortgage production volume remained steady in the second quarter amid a growing purchase-mortgage market.

Among the top 20 lenders in the nation, PennyMac and Nationstar had the highest growth rates, according to new figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

In general, mortgage-related earnings were strong at the nation's banks in the second quarter, but clearly earnings "leakage" is underway. And yes, gain-on-sale is starting to slip.

Redwood Trust, not surprisingly, was the top jumbo MBS issuer in the first half of 2013, according to exclusive rankings from Inside MBS & ABS.

First-time homebuyers accounted for 33 percent of all GSE-securitized purchase mortgages in the first half, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both saw production slow during the second quarter, by 7 percent and 2 percent, respectively.