Newrez will recognize cryptocurrency assets when underwriting certain expanded-credit mortgages.

After record-breaking non-QM growth in 2025, Logan Finance began 2026 by creating a new managing director of correspondent lending role.

An unidentified insurance company recently started buying jumbo mortgages through the Maxex marketplace.

Guild Mortgage turns to LoanBeam to automate income analysis for non-QMs; Roc360 secures a $150 million investment from Temasek; Truss Financial Group launches non-agency products; American Pride Bank expanded its one-time-close construction loan program.

Holdings of first-lien residential mortgages at banks and thrifts slightly increased by 0.4% during the third quarter of 2025. But two of the four largest players in the market reduced their holdings.

Brokers are feeling optimistic about 2026, due in part to the expansion of non-qualified mortgage offerings.

The non-qualified mortgage sector has exhibited significant performance pressure over the past two years. The sector has not yet faced material losses, though.

Production of adjustable-rate mortgages declined slightly during the third quarter of 2025, but were up 40.7% through the first nine months of the year.

Joel Berner, a senior economist at Realtor.com, said renovated homes still catch buyers’ attention, but financing the cost of those improvements at today’s rates is less appealing to price-sensitive shoppers.

As short-term rental lending grows, a valuation management company launched a form to make the appraisal process more accurate.