Total servicing held by depository institutions slipped 2.9% during the fourth quarter, shrinking their share of the top-50 market to 48.7%.

Its gain-on-sale margin came in at 305 basis points in 4Q20 compared to 110 bps in the year ago period. The nonbank also vowed to return “excess cash” to shareholders when possible, a reference to dividend payments.

The sole category that saw an increase on a sequential basis was loan closings, which registered a 2.1% rise.

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The volume of FHA loans was down 4.2% for the year, including a 1.8% drop from the third to the fourth quarter. But at $1.114 trillion, FHA loans continued to represent the dominant slice of the Ginnie pie...

Servicers are buying delinquent FHA/VA mortgages out of Ginnie MBS pools, placing the notes in portfolio as part of a reclamation strategy.

Despite the achievement of the ranking, UWM’s contribution to jumbo MBS actually declined by 4.4% on an annual basis last year while overall non-agency jumbo securitization increased...

Agency multifamily MBS programs accounted for 72.2% of total commercial mortgage securitization in 2020, their most dominant share since the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis.

Liquidations of loans from Ginnie Mae MBS nearly doubled in 2020 on an annual basis.

Overall, Freddie said its multifamily arm financed 803,000 rental units, more than 95% of which qualified as “affordable.”