Finance of America ranked 27th among all lenders in the first half of 2020. The firm projects $293 million in net income for the year.

This morning, on the heels of JPM’s results, nonbank United Wholesale Mortgage, reported third quarter originations of $54.2 billion, a sequential gain of 31.8%. UWM also disclosed period earnings of $1.5 billion, a record for the soon-to-be-public company.

The reason for the decline: Many borrowers saw their forbearance plans expire because they did not contact their servicer. At least, that’s what MBA concluded.

The overall number of loans declined as borrowers whose loans were not in forbearance took advantage of low interest rates to refinance. Ultimately, Fannie’s net forbearance rate only declined about 1.0% in June, WFS said.

At the same time, sales of refi loans in the highest-risk category fell 5.0%. Such loans have LTVs of 81% to 97% and FICO scores of 620 to 699.

Despite what looks like good news, Black Knight warned there are another 800K forbearances reaching the end of their initial six-month terms over the next 30 days...

The agencies securitized almost $592 billion of single-family refi loans, a 17.8% increase from 2Q. Refis accounted for 64.7% of the market during the third quarter. However, purchase-mortgage activity increased more in percentage terms...

The 10-year Treasury currently is offering a yield of 0.77%, the highest reading since early June…

DBRS saw a relatively small 5.7% decline in MBS ratings from the first to the second quarter, and actually upped its ratings of expanded-credit mortgage MBS...

One thing seems universal: originators are swamped with applications and inquiries, but are short of workers...