Monthly issuance was up the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. and Government National Mortgage Association but not enough to offset the decline at the Federal National Mortgage Association.
The trio of housing finance agencies collectively saw $150.374 billion in issuance of fixed-rate mortgage-backed securities during February.
Secondary marketing activity was off from the prior month, when fixed-rate MBS issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae totaled $154.543 billion.
The data from eMBS indicated that business was better than a year earlier, when agency issuance amounted to $111.269 billion.
Agency issuance might have been higher if it weren’t for Fannie, where fixed-rate MBS issuance dropped to $74.349 billion from $80.442 billion during January.
Year-to-date volume at the Washington, D.C.-based company totaled $154.791 billion.
Issuance of Freddie MBS edged up to $40.726 billion from $39.842 billion and was $35.409 billion in February 2012.
Volume at Freddie, which has its headquarters in McLean, Va., was $80.568 billion during the first two months of 2013.
Issuers of securities guaranteed by Washington, D.C.-based Ginnie issued $35.299 billion, a little more than the previous month’s $34.259 billion and significantly better than $24.460 billion in fixed-rate securities issued the same month last year.
Calendar-year issuance for Ginnie totaled $69.558 billion through Feb. 28.
