Earnings were helped by a surge in loan applications that locked in September.

The parent company of CrossCountry Mortgage priced a $600.0 million debt offering that was upsized due to investor demand.

HEL securitization volume for the first nine months of the year hit $20.58 billion, up 70.8% from the first nine months of 2024.

Figures from the Census Bureau tracking sales of new homes haven’t been available since data for August due to the recent partial shutdown of the federal government.

Figure generated $89.8 million of net income in the third quarter, well beyond the $29.4 million in income the company had in the first half of the year.

Rate-term refi deliveries to agency MBS more than doubled on a monthly basis to $25.37 billion in October.

If the GSEs continue the long-term path of reducing the size of their portfolios, that’s not necessarily attractive for potential investors in a capital raise by the GSEs.

Production and sales revenue lifted mortgage-banking income at a number of banks in the third quarter.

The nonbank is marketing a $341.2 million non-agency MBS in which 41.0% of the dollar volume is mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs, with jumbos accounting for the rest.

“This would be great for consumers and the safety of the mortgage market, to have both FICO 10T Score and Vantage Score 4.0,” FHFA Director Bill Pulte wrote on X.