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John Bancroft

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REIT MBS Investments Up Almost 19% From a Year Ago

December 4, 2023
John Bancroft
AGNC posted a hefty 19.4% increase in its agency MBS portfolio...
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Trends in Purchase-Mortgage Sector Vary in 3Q

December 1, 2023
John Bancroft
United Wholesale Mortgage ranked as the top producer of purchase mortgages in the first nine months of 2023 with $73.17 billion.
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Short Takes: Improving Outlook for Private MIs / PacWest Merges With Banc of California / Buyback on 1997 Mortgage / A Low for Home Sales

December 1, 2023
Brandon Ivey and John Bancroft
Fitch adjusted its outlook for the mortgage insurance industry from “deteriorating” to “neutral.”
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Mortgage REITs Boost MBS Holdings With Agency Gains

November 30, 2023
John Bancroft
Annaly Capital Management remained the biggest REIT investor in the MBS market, but AGNC Investment gained a lot of ground in the third quarter. (Includes two data tables.)
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Fitch Leads in MBS Ratings, Closes in on S&P in ABS

November 30, 2023
John Bancroft
The red-hot vehicle ABS market saw intense competition between S&P and Fitch for ratings supremacy. Kroll rode the resurgent ECM MBS market to boost its share of rated issuance. (Includes two data tables.)
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FHA Gains Share in Key Sector: First-Time Buyers

November 30, 2023
John Bancroft
UWM was the top originator of purchase loans for the first nine months of 2023, while Rocket held the lead in refinance lending. The FHA saw a rising share of purchase loans sold to the agencies in the third quarter. (Includes four data tables.)
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Servicing Income Helping to Prop Up Lenders

November 30, 2023
John Bancroft
Large mortgage companies are seeing flat income from originations and increasing income from servicing.
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Market Share Gains for Correspondent Lenders

November 27, 2023
John Bancroft
A number of competitors in the correspondent channel registered eye-popping growth...
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Fed Portfolio Reshuffle Spurs GSE Supers Issuance

November 27, 2023
John Bancroft
Supers are second-level securities backed by Fannie and Freddie uniform MBS...
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Servicing Still Propping Up Limping Production Income

November 22, 2023
John Bancroft
While most publicly traded companies reported positive results on their production and servicing income, the MBA found that nearly half of the industry failed to turn a profit in the third quarter. (Includes data table.)
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