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

Freddie Mac increased its holdings of agency mortgage-backed securities by 14.5% on a monthly basis during February.

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.

The Supreme Court denied a petition from Nationwide Biweekly Administration to hear an appeal of a lawsuit involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Pension funds and insurance companies are among the investor types that boosted their holdings of residential MBS during the fourth quarter of 2025.

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

MBA projects that the unemployment rate will rise from 4.4% in the first quarter of 2026 to a peak of 4.7% in the third quarter.

GSE buybacks in 2025 were down 12.8% from 2024 and represented the lowest annual total since 2020.

Home prices increased by 0.1% on a monthly, seasonally-adjusted basis, according to Redfin.

New partnerships are slated to yield an AI-powered originations platform in one case and preferred mortgage rates and homebuying advice as an employee benefit in another.