Veteran loan broker Michael Foote called it, “Good marketing more than anything, but they’ll just stack the loans and then sell them as soon as the new loans can be delivered…

While banks and foreign investors have increased their holdings of agency MBS in recent quarters, the Federal Reserve continued to buy over half of net new issuance during the second quarter. (Includes three data charts.)

Nonbank mortgage processors serviced $4.977 trillion of securitized home loans as of June 30, up 2.4% from March and hefty 20.2% gain from a year ago.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posted significant gains in single-family business in the second quarter, but Ginnie was relatively flat and the non-agency servicing market continued to shrink. (Includes two data charts.)

The decline in mortgage origination from the first to the second quarter hit nonbanks harder, but the industry still accounted for 70% of production by the top 100 lenders. (Includes two data charts.)

Freedom Mortgage was the top retail government lender in the first half of 2021...

A number of companies gained market share in government lending during the second quarter as the industry leaders, Freedom Mortgage and PennyMac, reported declining production. (Includes data chart.)

New HELOCs and second mortgages were up 24% in the second quarter.

New issuance of rated non-agency MBS was up strongly from the first to the second quarter and all five rating services upped new business. But new issuance of rated ABS was down slightly, and competition intensified. (Includes two data charts.)

Most top home-equity lenders reported increased production levels in the second quarter. But retained portfolios of HELOCs and closed-end seconds continued to shrink. (Includes three data charts.)