It was the biggest volume of new lending above the conforming loan limit since the second quarter of 2007 – before “emergency” conforming loan limits were authorized by Congress.

On a combined basis, the nine lender/servicers tracked by Inside Mortgage Trends generated $243 billion in single-family mortgages during the second quarter, a little less than half the entire market.

S&P has been the top non-agency MBS rating agency over the years but DBRS captured the title in 2012 with 55 percent of rated transactions, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

Combined with the 15 companies that previously reported earnings, mortgage banking income jumped 10 percent in the second quarter, to $7.51 billion.

The three government MBS agencies issued $144.26 billion of single-family MBS last month, down 3 percent from June’s level. It was the lowest monthly production level so far in 2013.

For the first time in six years, the four surviving private MIs reported a combined profit on their domestic MI business during 2Q13.

Most of the apartment loans being securitized go through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs.

Mortgage lenders saw a noticeable decline in refinancing of underwater Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed...

Bank of America continues to drop servicing and dropped to third in the ranking of servicers as of the second quarter of 2013.

Mortgage production volume remained steady in the second quarter amid a growing purchase-mortgage market.