Lenders Find Their Own Origination Strategies in Shifting Mortgage Market
January 12, 2012
Refinance activity has represented more than half of home loan originations every year since 2006, and housing sales have been in a slump for the past five years. But individual mortgage lenders continue to carve out their own production strategies, including in some cases a devotion to the smaller purchase-mortgage sector. A new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of loans originated under the four major agency mortgage programs through the first nine months of 2011 shows that many of the top overall producers beefed up their market share by aggressively originating...(Includes one data chart)
Inside Mortgage Finance's newsletters break the mortgage market down so you get the news and data you need most, whether it's total industry coverage or just the news related to securitization, regulation, profits or other specific topics.