Short Takes: Mortgage Application Payments Decrease / Homebuyers Wait / Non-QM Performance Improves / Mortgage Delinquency Rates Rise August 28, 2025 Abby Zimmardi The median amount due at application dropped in July.Read More
Rocket/Mr. Cooper Merger Gets Nod From FHFA August 27, 2025 Dennis Hollier The regulator, though, says no market participant can account for more than 20% of the GSEs' servicing market.Read More
Large Servicers See Rise in 2Q Delinquencies August 27, 2025 Brandon Ivey Delinquencies rose at both nonbanks and banks during the quarter.Read More
Residential Transition Loan Originations Simmer August 27, 2025 Abby Zimmardi Production is cooling off even as interest rates on RTLs decline.Read More
Short Takes: Home Equity Used to Pay Student Loans / Mortgage Apps Slow / Homesellers Retreat / FNB Hires New Chief Consumer Banking Officer August 27, 2025 Shannon Clark and James Dohnert Interest in HEIs for student loan repayment will likely continue to grow given dwindling deferment options.Read More
GSE Purchases of Credit Insurance Down in 2Q August 26, 2025 Dennis Hollier Freddie Mac credit insurance increases raised the numbers for both GSEs in the second quarter.Read More
Chase Relaunches HELOC Program August 26, 2025 James Dohnert Chase has brought back its HELOC program after stopping new applications in 2020.Read More
Knock Issues Inaugural Securitization August 26, 2025 James Dohnert Knock has issued a $100 million bond backed exclusively by bridge loan products.Read More
Short Takes: Logan Finance Adds Dobynes / MBA Shares Recommendations for BNPL Debt / Planet Grows / DQs Declining August 26, 2025 James Dohnert The national delinquency rate improved for the second month in a row.Read More
Purchase Mortgages Outpace Refis in Second Quarter August 22, 2025 Brandon Ivey Purchase-mortgage originations increased by 41.2% from the first quarter while refi business was up 34.1%.Read More
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