According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, Better – which is just five years old – ranks 36^th among all home originators.

However, the revised regulation never saw the light of day —  it was stayed a day before implementation by a federal court in Massachusetts. Since October, the future of the rule has been in limbo.

Owned by Lone Star Funds, Caliber late last fall filed to go public but the IPO has been on hold for undisclosed reasons. Meanwhile, NRIC also said this morning that its previously announced IPO of NewRez will proceed.

Some $3.86 billion of expanded-credit MBS was issued in the first quarter, up 13.2% from 4Q20...

Among the key risks highlighted with the use of AI: explainability, data usage and dynamic updating...

Bray noted that Ginnie’s memorandum, which established a new pool type for re-performing loans, “puts significant restrictions" on issuers, increasing both the risk and the cost...

When it comes to forbearance, Black Knight noted widespread improvement “with all investor classes seeing significant declines" in active cases...

IMBs employed 257,100 full-timers at Feb. 28. A year ago, the reading was 36,000 positions lower.

Some $11.40 billion of these loans — often used for fix-and-flip lending and bridge financing — were originated in 2020...

Old-fashioned rate-term transactions still accounted for most of the VA refi market, at 89.1% in the first quarter...