Private MIs made some gains in the insured purchase-mortgage market in 2021, while the FHA grew its share of insured refinance business. (Includes three data charts.)

Early reporters of fourth-quarter results are giving the mortgage industry a glimpse of what’s to come for everyone else: weak or negative origination growth. Message: The party can’t last forever.

It’s not easy to bring multi-state enforcement actions, yet regulators from 44 states signed consent orders with 441 loan officers who lied about having completed required annual continuing education courses.