Higher mortgage rates in six months? No one sees it...

Even loans that fall into the “other” category (portfolio and private-label loans mostly) dropped: 10.41% from 10.93% on July 5.

The biggest gain in the government market was in VA loans, where quarterly volume was up 23.5%...

The writing was on the wall: nonbanks took over the Ginnie market back in 2016...

In order to lower servicing costs, FHA proposed limiting required mortgagee curtailment of interest to the length of the mortgagee’s delay...

The venerable agency MBS platform set production records in both the third and fourth quarters of 2019, caught its breath in early 2020, and then rose 12.7% to a new high in the April-June cycle.

The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac measurement came in at 6.07%, down 11 bps, the fifth consecutive decline.

Record-low mortgage interest rates powered a surge in refinance activity in agency mortgage-backed securities platforms during the second quarter of 2020, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis.

Lenders must conduct desk reviews of appraisals based on FHA standards...

n the first quarter, the top three HECM originators (American Advisors Group, Reverse Mortgage Funding and Finance of America Mortgage) accounted for $1.04 billion, or 26.8%, of total production…