Legislation to limit trigger lead activity was removed from “must-pass” defense spending legislation. Still, mortgage industry participants are confident Congress will pass the trigger leads ban as soon as next year.

About 40 million households are making consistent monthly rent payments that are equal to or greater than the average monthly mortgage payment, according to one estimate.

A spin-off of nonbank Newrez by Rithm Capital parent could happen in 2025. The missing ingredient: lower interest rates.

The increase in the 10-year Treasury rate following the November election and changes in expectations for interest rates have prompted economists to revise down their projections for originations in 2025.

Subservicing balances are declining across the spectrum, but not all vendors are suffering. Cenlar remains the market leader, but Mr. Cooper, ranked second, is no slouch. (Includes data table.)

A provision in the proposed rule that would limit sales of “credit header” information only to users who have a permissible purpose to obtain it would restrict the ability of lenders to advertise mortgage products.

Automatically increasing the caps for loans to be eligible for sale to the GSEs increases access to mortgage credit, but at the expense of increasing home prices.

Lenders could increase originations of mortgages from first-time homebuyers if they did more to educate their loan officers on downpayment assistance programs.

If the $400 million unsecured debt offering is successful, might other nonbanks follow in its wake?

The appraisal industry will soon experience major updates via the GSEs’ migration to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset 3.6.