Not only did loanDepot have blowout earnings in 2020, but its CEO and founder took home a blowout paycheck. Are there more like it?

Researchers at the think tank focused on the presence of appraisal bias during refinancing transactions because such loans “lack an arm’s length transaction.”

Commercial banks and thrifts reported over $1 billion of mortgage repurchases during the third quarter. (Includes data chart.)

Correspondents increased their share in the conventional-conforming and government markets, as did wholesale-broker platforms. But TPO production was nearly shut out of the jumbo market. (Includes two data charts.)

The top three banks reported a combined $2.3 billion in mortgage banking income for the third quarter of 2020, up $1.3 billion from the prior period. (Includes data chart.)

A lot of the decline in servicing-for-others held by banks was attributable to Wells Fargo and other big players in the market. A number of mid-sized banks grew SFO in 3Q20. (Includes two data charts.)

Although gain-on-sale margins narrowed from the second to the third quarter, nonbanks reported strong results from their origination and secondary market activity. (Includes data chart.)

Wells Fargo's huge increase in mortgage-banking income accounted for nearly all the gain reported by 19 publicly traded banks. Still, the second and third quarters of 2020 were incredibly lucrative for mortgage banking platforms. (Includes data chart.)

California remained the top market for insured mortgage originations in the third quarter, though volume was up 16.6%, compared with a 19.1% increase nationwide. (Includes data chart.)

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