An affiliate of Ellington Management Group is offering its first non-agency MBS with GSE-eligible mortgages.

The impairment rate on securitized non-qualified mortgages didn't recover in December after a spike in November that was thought to be tied to the month ending on a Sunday.

Growing acceptance of DSCR loans is helping drive improved lending flexibility.

GSE purchase-mortgage business with private MI declined at about half the rate of the decline seen in FHA purchase-mortgage business in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The MBA pushed back on various concerns raised by CHLA regarding a proposal to allow single-file credit pulls for certain GSE mortgages.

Rating criteria for securitizations of residential transition loans has helped boost investor participation in the sector, according to officials at Morningstar DBRS.

Conforming jumbo business at the GSEs fell 14.4% on an annual basis to $31.85 billion in 2025.

The funding bill passed by the house for HUD in fiscal year 2026 avoids drastic cuts sought by the Trump administration.

The conservative-majority justices appeared critical of the arguments from Trump’s Solicitor General D. John Sauer and expressed concern that Trump’s move could “shatter” the Fed’s independence.

For more than four hours, HUD Secretary Scott Turner repeatedly traced the root of the housing shortage to an issue he told Congress to solve.