The new record arrives after five months of annual home-price growth, which surged to its highest in more than a year, according to ICE Mortgage Technology.

Despite the variety of loans in the pool, the vast majority of assets are considered qualified mortgages, with only 10.9% considered non-QM.

The July jobs report was bad, but the context is worse: people leaving the labor force, stubborn inflation and rising bond yields.

Near-term expectations for price growth fell in the latest consumer sentiment survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but remains above the central bank's target across all time horizons.

The current deal comes to market with a shorter revolving period and a smaller collateral pool, but other traits are similar to previous deals.

The economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, but the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% all the same. The development could embolden both hawks and doves at the central bank.

The structure includes a stop-advance feature, which will prevent the servicer from providing scheduled interest and principal on loans that are 120 days or more delinquent.

The company's affiliate has been issuing non-QM deals that include a small percentage of second liens, some of which also involve alternative documentation.

The latest consumer conditions study from the American Financial Services Association paints a less-than-rosy picture of how lenders expect the second half of the year to play out.

Assets have a non-zero credit score is 631, notably lower than previous transactions. Also, a slight majority of borrowers, 53.23%, have credit scores of 660 or lower.

The current pool's major loan characteristics were higher than that those seen on the RKTL 2026-2, with 60-month loans representing a higher concentration of the current pool (77.0%) compared with 73.7% on the previous deal.

The Federal Reserve governor said inflation is too high but said she ultimately voted last week to hold interest rates steady to give recent economic trends more time to play out.