United Wholesale Mortgage's agency MBS issuance declined by 6.5% on a monthly basis in February while Rocket Mortgage's volume was down 16.5%.

For standalone VantageScores tied to mortgage originations, TransUnion will charge $0.99 rather than $4.00.

Only two securitizations of home equity loans have hit the market thus far in March.

UWM is projecting revenue of between $800 million and $900 million for the first quarter of 2025, rather than the forecast of between $650 million and $850 million in revenue offered less than two weeks earlier.

The lender’s gain-on-sale margin increased from 1.14% in the third quarter to 1.50% in the fourth quarter, with a rise in originations to boot. Leaders at the company cautioned that some lenders are gaining market share at the expense of earnings.

Repurchase and indemnification activity at banks and thrifts declined by 10.9% from the third to the fourth quarter of 2025. Though for the full year, repurchases increased by 4.8% compared with 2024. (Includes data table.)

FASB looking at held-to-maturity hedging; NAIC proposes looser risk-based capital standard for mortgages held by life insurance companies; Better turns to new source of financing; Oregon bank to stop offering mortgages.

The retail channel accounted for 51.3% of first-lien mortgage originations in 2025, up from 50.6% in 2024, according to a new analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Typically, the loans in jumbo MBS from Redwood are fixed-rate mortgages.

"It is possible that pull-through rates declined in February as mortgage rates continued to drift lower through the month," according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.