UWM's debt offering priced with an interest rate of 6.625%.

FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon suggested any cut in the mortgage insurance premium would likely wait for the next administration.

Government mortgage insurance programs captured most of the primary MI gain in the third quarter.

A business-friendly CFPB, higher insurance premiums for FHA borrowers and an exit from conservatorship for the GSEs are all possibilities.

The increase in the use of primary MI during the third quarter was sharpest in refinances.

Some $189.08 billion of loans with insurance coverage were included in agency MBS issued in the third quarter, a 13.6% increase from the prior period.

PMIs say the tougher available assets standards won't impact their eligibility as approved insurers.

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group launched a mortgage reinsurance business.

Radian Guaranty ranked first among private MIs in new insurance written, posting a 20.5% increase to $13.89 billion in the second quarter.

GSE purchase-mortgage volume — both with private mortgage insurance and without private MI — increased at a faster pace in the second quarter of 2024 than FHA purchase-mortgage business.