Residential delinquency eased in September at Fannie Mae, while overall issuance of mortgage-backed securities moved higher. But multifamily performance deteriorated, and new secondary activity took a dive last month.
The Washington, D.C.-based company reported that new business acquisitions totaled $88.792 billion during September.
Activity inched up from August, when volume was $86.038 billion. Business was much better than a year earlier, when secondary activity amounted to $55.336 billion.
So far in 2012, new business acquisitions add up to $667.923 billion.
An early indicator of October activity, fixed-rate issuance as reported by eMBS, sank to $57.219 billion from $79.994 billion in September.
During the three months ended Sept. 30, overall issuances amounted to $251.934 billion, more than $194.6 billion in the second quarter and nearly double the $139.1 billion in third-quarter 2011 secondary activity.
Fannie’s book of business climbed to $3.1933 trillion from $3.1921 trillion as of Aug. 31. The total has risen each month since June, when it stood at $3.1834 trillion. As of Sept. 30, 2011, the book of business was $3.1874 trillion.
At the same time, Fannie trimmed its mortgage portfolio — to $0.6543 trillion from $0.6608 trillion as of Aug. 31.
The other component of the book of business, outstanding MBS, finished September at $2.5390 trillion.
Residential delinquency of at least 90 days continued its unfettered run of improvement, falling to 3.41 percent from 3.44 percent at the end of August. The rate of late payments on home loans was 4.00 percent at the same point last year.
Multifamily delinquency of at least 60 days, however, rose to 0.28 percent in September from the prior month’s 0.25 percent. But apartment delinquency stands well below the 0.57 percent rate of a year earlier.
