Higher interest rates often cut into new business at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it helps preserve ongoing guarantee fees by reducing prepayments.

The real estate investment trust is using AI for deed-of-trust stamping and pricing.

The executive order is limited in scope compared with the large list of requests from industry participants.

Net revenues increased at both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac even as high interest rates continue to depress new loan acquisitions.

Ten Democratic state attorneys general urged a federal district court to deny the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s motion to dismiss a complaint challenging two of its recent final rules.

Rising interest rates are constraining originations of traditional mortgages and leading to a higher share for the expanded-credit market.

The firm set an issuance volume record for the seventh straight quarter in the third quarter of 2026.

Non-QM wholesaler Cake Mortgage is posting record production this year, and plans to keep the momentum going by entering a new lending channel.

The firm started originating expanded-credit mortgages in September 2025 and had relied on other issuers to distribute its expanded-credit originations into MBS.

Lenders working with loan participation structures should know the difference between the legal structure and accounting treatment, according to players in the sector.