Mixed Bag for Top Lenders: Lending Down At Wells While Other Banks Boost Production
April 18, 2013
The long-awaited slowdown in residential originations may finally be at the doorstep of the nations largest banks, according to first-quarter results released over the past week by the giants of the industry including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and U.S. Bancorp. In general, gain-on-sale margins eroded or held steady, but most megabanks hiked the asset value of their mortgage servicing rights. And some, like Wells and U.S. Bancorp, continued to hold some of their agency-eligible mortgage originations on their books instead of selling them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Revenues have peaked for everyone, Brian Foran, an analyst with Autonomous, told...