Most loans are removed from Ginnie pools because the borrower paid off the loan. Then there's the matter of EBOs...

In other words, in a market sized at roughly $2 trillion, and with total delinquencies measured at $218.9 billion (according to Ginnie’s website), the so called COVID-19 liquidity crisis never arrived...

MBA also urged the regulator to create guardrails to prevent any individual shareholder from gaining control of Fannie and Freddie after they’ve exited conservatorship…

Payoff removals fell 0.4% from July to August, and by 2.8% for FHA loans. The VA program, which sees much heavier refinance activity, recorded a 1.9% increase in payoff removals, edging up to its highest level of the year.

The soft performance in the FHA/VA market was all due to declining production in the correspondent and wholesale-broker channels. Retail originations of government loans were up 38.4% for the survey group.

Securitization of purchase loans rose 16.2% from July to August, including an 18.2% increase in VA loans. FHA still accounted for the biggest share of government-insured purchase loans, 53.0% last month.

Fannie and Freddie warn that g-fees could spike...

New residential applications fell once again. Time to worry? Hardly...

If the language goes into effect as is, the role of government entities that provide assistance could be limited...