But the analysts eventually conceded they didn’t have data on borrowers’ assets, income, LTVs and more.

Although some lenders love having a desk in a high-volume Realtor’s office, others loathe the practice. “I lost so much business to those places over the years,” he said. “I refused to pay $5,000 for a desk…”

Finally, the jumbo MBS drought is over, or will be by the end of next week.

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Michael Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, said the GSEs’ back-end risk-sharing deals do not represent the type of reform most industry participants would like to see.

Investors that buy homes accounted for 15.2 percent of purchasers in September, based on a three-month moving average.

At mid-year 2015, Redwood’s subsidiary had $882 million of outstanding FHLB advances with a weighted average interest rate of 0.23 percent and a weighted average maturity of six years.

Jumbos accounted for 18.1 percent of total production in 2014, up from a 14.6 percent share the previous year.

“Had the proposal been implemented, it could have had a chilling effect on FHA lending, to the detriment of the borrowers served by the FHA program,” according to lawyers at K&L Gates.

Controlled by Loan Star Funds, Caliber has $1.0 billion to spend on funding non-agency mortgages.