Some $279.0 billion of home equity loans were originated in 2025.

Patrick Zondervan, executive director of the VA Loan Guaranty Service, said the agency was “absolutely willing” to examine its appraiser requirements.

As part of the agreement, CrossCountry paid $25.4 million to United Wholesale Mortgage, a termination fee to end the acquisition agreement UWM had with Two Harbors.

Loans backing the securitization included both VantageScore 4.0 and Classic FICO.

Nine expanded-credit MBS deals hit the market this week. The number the week before: one.

Just two of the 11 regional FHLBanks managed to increase annual profits from 2024 levels: the Chicago and San Francisco organizations.

The second lien tied to the crypto pledge requires monthly payments and the combined interest rate for the product could be higher than a comparable traditional mortgage.

Among 19 companies that report details on their mortgage-banking operations, production and secondary marketing income was up 10.5%, while servicing saw a 45.3% increase.

Economists at Fannie Mae project that interest rates on mortgages will fall throughout 2026 while MBA's economists see rates rising through September.

“The last couple of weeks have been a little softer than what we would like to see or what we normally get this time of year,” said Robert McGibney, president and CEO of KB Home.