Figure Technology Solutions is working to facilitate originations and sales of first-lien mortgages, touting lower costs and modern technology compared with delivering loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The correspondent share of mortgage originations shrank in 2025, with retail picking up most of the slack. Both channels remained well ahead of the wholesale channel. (Includes six data tables.)
Opendoor said its mortgage platform took just 10 weeks to build and is currently in beta. Bed Bath & Beyond, on the other hand, plans to foray into mortgage lending through inorganic growth.
United Wholesale Mortgage is offering a 75-basis-point pricing incentive for certain conventional and government-insured refinances through March, as well as a $600 appraisal credit for purchase mortgages through April.
Hope Dmuchowski, a senior executive vice president and chief financial officer at First Horizon Bank, said the bank’s mortgage warehouse activity is “behaving seasonally” with a decline in volume compared with the fourth quarter.
The GSEs noted that mortgages for government employees and other workers directly impacted by the shutdown are eligible for delivery to the GSEs, even if the borrower is not receiving pay, so long as certain conditions are met.