Despite an uptick in CRT issuance, high costs continue to drive more risk retention at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Figure Technology Solutions is offering its Digital Asset Registration Technologies registry to partners of Figure Lending to use for home equity lines of credit.

Mortgage financing was used on 80% of purchases of primary residences last year, a survey by the National Association of Realtors showed.

Plano, TX-based nonbank NFTN recently failed and its servicing transferred to Ginnie Mae.

Home prices in high- and low-cost neighborhoods converge in counties that have a high concentration of nonbank originations.

It’s been almost 20 years since the ABS market had a quarter like the first three months of 2024. Some 72 of the 114 issuers that brought deals to market in the first quarter were on the sidelines in the previous period. (Includes three data tables.)

Several factors will likely limit changes in prepayment activity in Ginnie MBS as the VA implements a new loss-mitigation program.

You thought rates would be falling by now, causing the MBS you own to spike in value. Right? It didn’t work out that way, but it might now. Advice: Bet on a rate cut from the Fed by the fall.

Uncertainty about interest rate cuts has led more auto ABS issuers to consider clean-up calls.

KBRA found that new multifamily construction could increase risks for MBS concentrated in certain cities.