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Inside Mortgage Finance

October 29, 2020

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FHA Market Share Slumps Again in 3Q20 Agency MBS

Private MI accounted for over half of the insured purchase loans sold into agency MBS during the third quarter, and the industry's share of insured refi business is up from 2019. (Includes three data charts.) Read More

An Earnings Homerun for the GSEs? Serious Delinquencies Rise

The third quarter was good to the two mortgage giants, but it wasn’t completely worry-free: Serious delinquencies spiked. Read More

Mortgage IPO Mania? How About Debt Mania...

Quietly, but steadily, mortgage banking firms have been selling debt. Lots of it. Read More

NewRez, Mr. Cooper Boost Production, Turn Large Profits in 3Q

Two large nonbank servicers posted sharp increases in originations in the third quarter and generated healthy profits. Read More

Google Launches Digital Mortgage Solution

Google is partnering with mortgage tech vendor Roostify as it launches Lending DocAI, a digital front-end product. Mortgage tech watchers wonder just how big the search engine giant might become in mortgages. Read More

Court Halts HUD’s Final Disparate-Impact Rule

A last-minute injunction secured by consumer groups on Sunday has halted HUD’s revised disparate-impact rule, which makes it harder to prove discrimination. Read More

Consumer Appetite for Condo Loans Shrinking

Only 20% of mortgage lenders that originate condo loans expect their volume to increase, according to a new survey from Fannie Mae. Read More

Residential Delinquencies Swimming Against the Tide?

Moody’s economists expect the percentage of mortgages 60 days or more delinquent to once again spike in the third and fourth quarters. Read More

Grapevine: M&A, Anyone? / What is Normal?

It’s been a quiet year for mortgage-related M&A. (Credit the pandemic and the resulting refi boom.) Meanwhile, some ponder what a normal origination year might look like. Read More

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