Nearly 70% of all homebuyers in 2025 didn’t shop with multiple lenders for their mortgage, an increase from 62% in 2024.

Jayendran GS, CEO of Prudent AI, a mortgage tech provider, said the growing presence of AI in underwriting is alleviating some lender fear around the technology.

VantageScore saw the use of its score increase by 68% on an annual basis in the ABS market in 2025, driven by auto loan providers.

Morningstar DBRS this week introduced three new bond categories to better reflect risk profiles.

Correspondent and broker channels gained market share for nonconforming loan originations in the third quarter, according to a new Inside Nonconforming Markets analysis of proprietary survey data.

Both the correspondent and broker channels picked up some market share from the retail channel in the third quarter of 2025. At Chase, the largest nonconforming retail lender among a group of 38 lenders, retail volume was up 1.6% during the third quarter. (Includes two data tables.)

A push by the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise disclosure standards for publicly-registered non-agency MBS has broad support.

Some 36.5% of the mortgages in a new $365.0 million non-agency MBS from Citi have private mortgage insurance and were eligible for delivery to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Backflip closed its first residential transition loan securitization last week, a $95 million deal.

The non-agency mortgage space is becoming more comfortable with artificial intelligence to help make the loan origination process more efficient.