Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s former attorney, testified during the trial that he used proceeds from a personal home equity line of credit to pay off Stormy Daniels on behalf of Trump.

Goldman is a leading issuer of prime non-agency MBS and an issuer of expanded-credit deals. The firm aggregates loans from various lenders for securitization.

Delinquency rates on commercial MBS in April hit a level last seen in September 2021. And AAA investors in a commercial MBS suffered a loss this month, a first for deals issued after 2010.

Banks reduced their non-agency jumbo lending in the early months of 2024, with nonbanks picking up some of the slack. Deliveries of high-balance mortgages into agency MBS also declined in the first quarter. (Includes three data tables.)

Sales of both existing and new homes declined on a monthly basis in April. Still, home sales and mortgage originations are expected to pick up as interest rates decline.

Goldman aggregated HELOCs from various lenders for the new securitization.

The assessment comes amid a shortage of appraisers along with concerns that the existing pool of appraisers isn’t sufficiently diverse.

Applications in late May hit the lowest level seen since March.

Prices increased by only 0.1% on a monthly basis in March, according to seasonally adjusted numbers from the FHFA.

A working paper from the FHFA used data from appraisals to estimate energy usage across time.