Economists at Fannie Mae project that the interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will average 6.5% during the fourth quarter of 2025.

Repurchases and indemnifications by banks and thrifts for residential mortgages declined by 16.3% on a quarterly basis in the first quarter of 2025.

The Mortgage Bankers Association and the American Bankers Association separately called for the CFPB to keep an anti-evasion exception established during the pandemic to help facilitate loan modifications.

The homebuyer must have a purchase mortgage from Rocket to be eligible.

Legislation to limit trigger leads passed the House and Senate with minor differences.

The largest servicing gains in the past year were in servicing for Ginnie Mae, whole loans at nonbanks and in non-agency mortgage-backed securities.

“The best thing we can do for the housing market is to restore price stability in a sustainable way and create a strong labor market,” said Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

A paper that found that lenders originate more conventional-conforming loans in areas impacted by a hurricane, and they securitize a larger percentage of those loans, was recently retracted.

Palisades is an alternative asset manager founded in 2012.

"He is hurting Americans and hurting the mortgage market, which I am responsible for regulating," Bull Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said of Fed Chair Jerome Powell.