Underwriting

Nonagency issuances are expected to increase 85% for this year over 2023, and rise another 36% in 2025, the second best since the financial crisis.

The average cost for a loan seller to buy back a mortgage from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac for defects is over $32,000, a study from Reggora and Stratmor found.

Critical defects increased for the second consecutive three-month period, with appraisal-related errors nearly doubling, Aces Quality Management said.

Private-label securitization volume increased 75% this year versus 2023; conditions are right for that to continue, KBRA said.

The Chicago-area lender, which at first was able to get the suit quashed, agreed to end the discrimination case by paying a $105,000 fine.

As it gets ready for more competition from VantageScore, the company also did not comment on reports of yet another impending price hike.

State housing finance agencies had a resurgent fiscal 2023 and the recent fed funds rate reduction could have a mixed impact on them, Fitch Ratings said.

More "Airbnb-style" rental property loans are making their way into non-qualified mortgage securitizations and could they be acting differently from the traditional non-owner occupied loans, a Standard & Poor's report asks.

The change in medical debt reporting initiated by the three credit bureaus did not go far enough as 15 million Americans are still impacted, the groups led by the National Consumer Law Center said.

But those in opposition are still giving the agency props for how it carried out the new product approval process for the first time.