Economists at Fannie Mae project that the interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will average 6.5% during the fourth quarter of 2025.

Repurchases and indemnifications by banks and thrifts for residential mortgages declined by 16.3% on a quarterly basis in the first quarter of 2025.

Notable: There was, however, an increase in the volume of unresolved buyback claims.

“The best thing we can do for the housing market is to restore price stability in a sustainable way and create a strong labor market,” said Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

A paper that found that lenders originate more conventional-conforming loans in areas impacted by a hurricane, and they securitize a larger percentage of those loans, was recently retracted.

Palisades is an alternative asset manager founded in 2012.

"He is hurting Americans and hurting the mortgage market, which I am responsible for regulating," Bull Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said of Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

The transaction covers a pool of mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $6.4 billion.

The analysis tracks holdings through March 2025. Several REITs subsequently reduced their holdings amid volatility on tariff policies.

The planned securitization is slightly larger than the $310.6 million deal the nonbank issued at the end of April.