Home prices are slowing and an expected decline in interest rates could prompt further changes in the trajectory of home prices.

Total 1-4 family mortgage servicing outstanding hit a record $14.027 trillion at the end of March. Nonbanks handled 50.2% of the total, compared to 49.6% as of the end of 2023.

Panelists at the Non-QM Forum noted the growing demand for non-QM whole-loan sales.

Euclid Mortgage will offer managing general underwriter capabilities to reinsurance companies that want to take on residential mortgages.

Hometap started offering HEIs in 2018 and has originated 11,373 HEI contracts across 18 states with an aggregate investment amount of more than $1.1 billion, according to Morningstar.

“There have been just two months in the past decade with fewer home sales [than in May 2024]: October 2023, when mortgage rates jumped to a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to a record low,” Redfin said.

The Fed’s actions Wednesday didn’t change the MBA’s forecast for mortgage rates.

Lenders delivered $27.21 billion of purchase loans into Ginnie MBS in May, up 7.5% from the prior month.

Banks and thrifts held $2.52 trillion of first liens in portfolio as of the end of March.

Banks are structuring CRT deals to include stronger mitigants to counterparty risk, which can help to boost the rating for the deal above the rating on the bank itself.