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Mortgage bankers saw new applications spike by 11% for the week ending Sept. 7—thanks to continued low interest rates.

Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. wrote $2.5 billion of new insurance policies in August, a 4% increase from the month prior.

Astoria Financial has already originated more multifamily and commercial real estate loans this year than it did in all of last year.

Wells continued to be an origination powerhouse in the second quarter, funding $131 billion of new home mortgages and setting yet another record in quarterly market share.

Nationally, 18% of residential borrowers who are current on their loan payments are underwater, ranging from a low of 0.4% in Wyoming to 55% in Nevada.

Radian Group, MGIC Investment Corp. and Genworth Financial—saw substantial increases in their stock prices Friday, one day after Radian released robust monthly results.

The gain-on-sale mortgage juggernaut of the past few quarters will continue for banks, according to Credit Suisse.

Mortgage firms added 1,300 new workers to their payrolls during July with loan brokers leading the hiring spree.

Six years after the bottom dropped out of the housing market, builders are finally starting to reclaim their traditional share of home sales, but challenges remain.

Guarantors that are members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America broke the $10 billion market in new policies written for July.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell four basis points during the week ending September 6 to 3.55%, according to new figures compiled by Freddie Mac.

Two nonbanks had the fastest servicing growth rates in the second quarter: Nationstar at 194%, and Provident Funding with 35%.

The nation’s top ranked servicers completed 66,000 proprietary loan modifications in July, a 40% jump from June -- evidence that the Attorneys General 'robo' settlement is having an effect.

The agency said lenders took in 79,300 applications for streamline refinancings during the month, which represents 44% of all FHA loan applications filed in July.

Since the housing bust began in earnest in 2008, mortgage related stocks, for the most part, have hemorrhaged in price, according to an analysis conducted by National Mortgage News.

The CoreLogic house price index rose in July for the fifth consecutive month.

Outstanding mortgage debt in the U.S.—mortgage servicing rights—has been falling steadily in the wake of the nation’s housing crisis. But the decline has now officially ended.

Fannie Mae acquired $77.1 billion of product from its seller/servicers in July, almost double what it took in a year ago.

Independent mortgage banking firms saw their origination profits spike by 30% in the second quarter.

Troubled residential properties accounted for 23% of all home sales in the second quarter, a slight increase from 1Q.