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.

Cotality is projecting a 4.4% annual increase in home prices as of January 2027.

Securitization volume of home equity loans increased by 5.8% on a sequential basis to $10.62 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“5.75% is really where you have more and more homeowners in the money on a cash-out refi,” Scott Peyree, president and CEO of LendingTree, said.

Prior to back-to-back CRT offerings in February and March, the government-sponsored enterprise hadn’t issued a CRT deal since October.

MorVest Capital is brokering the sale of agency mortgage servicing rights with an unpaid principal balance of $2.41 billion.

Some $401.0 billion of nonconforming mortgages were originated in 2025.

"We structurally doubled the capacity of every production team member through technology," said Varun Krishna, CEO and director of Rocket Companies.

Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure Technology Solutions, said some lenders are on the verge of shifting some of their mortgage business from the GSEs to FTS.

The Senate is poised to vote on legislation aimed at addressing housing affordability.