Refi guarantees in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ home loan program more than doubled during the fourth quarter.

Hope Dmuchowski, a senior executive vice president and chief financial officer at First Horizon Bank, said the bank’s mortgage warehouse activity is “behaving seasonally” with a decline in volume compared with the fourth quarter.

Federal regulators are set to propose revisions to bank capital requirements and then plan to adjust liquidity requirements.

The GSEs noted that mortgages for government employees and other workers directly impacted by the shutdown are eligible for delivery to the GSEs, even if the borrower is not receiving pay, so long as certain conditions are met.

Cotality is projecting a 4.4% annual increase in home prices as of January 2027.

Securitization volume of home equity loans increased by 5.8% on a sequential basis to $10.62 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“5.75% is really where you have more and more homeowners in the money on a cash-out refi,” Scott Peyree, president and CEO of LendingTree, said.

Judges on the appeals court seemed conflicted about whether the Trump administration has the authority to move forward with its plans to terminate nearly 90% of the workforce at the CFPB.

Prior to back-to-back CRT offerings in February and March, the government-sponsored enterprise hadn’t issued a CRT deal since October.

MorVest Capital is brokering the sale of agency mortgage servicing rights with an unpaid principal balance of $2.41 billion.