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Articles by Brandon Ivey

Ally Financial to Sell $400 Million of Mortgage Assets

January 22, 2026
Brandon Ivey
The shift of the assets to "held for sale" status prompted a $27.0 million loss.
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Short Takes: Pending Home Sales Slump / Some Signs of Life / Investment Firm Revives Equity-Sharing Lender

January 22, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Pending home sales declined by 3.0% on an annual basis in December.
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Trump’s Promised Housing Affordability Plans MIA at Davos

January 21, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Trump delivered wide-ranging remarks at the event but didn’t reveal any new housing policies.
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BOK Financial Making Big Push in Warehouse Lending

January 21, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Stacy Kymes, president and CEO of the bank, said BOK could “easily” hit $1.0 billion in warehouse lending commitments by the end of 2026.
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Short Takes: Mortgage Applications Rise / Inventory Influencing Home Price Trends / Refi Share Spikes at Wintrust / First American Offering Free Title Monitoring

January 21, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Applications for refis increased by 20% on a weekly basis last week.
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MSR Values, Hedging Eat Into U.S. Bank’s Mortgage Earnings

January 20, 2026
Brandon Ivey
U.S. Bank took a negative $11.0 million mark for mortgage servicing rights fair value, net of economic hedges, in the fourth quarter of 2025.
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Short Takes: Calm Before the Storm / FHA Premium Cut? / Homebuilder Sees Constrained Demand

January 20, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Trump is set to reveal plans to address housing affordability and the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Trump's effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors.
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Non-Agency MBS Issuance Jumps 61% in 2025

January 16, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Issuance of expanded-credit MBS increased by nearly 80% on an annual basis in 2025 to $75.91 billion. Prime non-agency MBS issuance was up nearly 40% to $45.19 billion. (Includes data table.)
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MBA Economist Still Sees Interest Rates Staying Above 6.0%

January 16, 2026
Brandon Ivey
Michael Fratantoni, chief economist and a senior vice president of research and business development at the Mortgage Bankers Association, predicted that interest rates will largely stay above 6.0% in 2026 and 2027.
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Agency MBS Investors Await Details on GSE Purchases

January 16, 2026
Brandon Ivey
It remains unclear what types of MBS the GSEs are planning to buy and the span of the planned purchases, among other factors.
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