Investors are showing strong demand for ABS that receive private ratings. The deals tend to carry bespoke terms driven by investors.

Urban Institute reviewed varying estimates of the national housing shortage and suggested policy solutions to address the shortfall.

A Redfin survey found that almost 25% of recent young homebuyers used family money to fund their downpayment.

Conforming-jumbo loan issuance spiked in the second quarter after a weak start to the year.

The dataset will provide investors and issuers access to performance metrics in the home equity line of credit market.

NAR Economist Lawrence Yun is projecting 14% growth in home sales in 2026 if the interest rate on mortgages falls to 6%. However, economists at Fannie Mae and MBA in recent weeks lowered their expectations for mortgage rates decreases.

Lenders of nonconforming loans say there’s still a lot up in the air with FHFA's push to consider a borrower's crypto holdings in the mortgage application process.

Issuance increased 17% from the first quarter, with growth primarily driven by expanded-credit mortgages.

Issuance of non-agency mortgage-backed securities reached $29.56 billion in the second quarter, up 17.3% from the previous quarter. (Includes data tables.)

The GSEs look to follow in the footsteps of a handful of non-agency lenders by considering cryptocurrency holdings when underwriting mortgage borrowers. The impact on the mortgage market remains unclear.