Mortgages

The plan from the Heritage Foundation, a group the first Trump administration was largely in line with, would shutter CFPB, break up HUD and raise FHA premiums.

But economists seem to differ on what the latest movement in mortgage rates means for the summer home sales business.

Finance of America has $350 million of notes coming due next year and wants to trade them for $200 million of secured debt coming due in 2026 and $150 million maturing in 2029.

New York Mortgage Trust's 9.125% notes due 2029 may help fund new purchases of mortgages and securitizations in the private or agency markets.

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

None of the loans registered a delinquency in the past 24 months, and none had received a modification prior to the May 31 cutoff date.

The move allows Freddie Mac to start purchasing certain second lien mortgages, but establishes limits on how much volume it can do.

The decline for the third consecutive week reflects investors' belief that the Federal Open Market Committee is likely to cut rates this year.

One of the subordinate tranches, the BX is exchangeable, while credit enhancement levels on the notes range from 35.70% on the A1 notes to 3.5% on the B3 tranche.

The partnership between personal finance platform Esusu and the National Rental Home Council has several of the trade group's members delivering payment data. They say that has helped result in over 85,000 originations across lending segments.

A decline in interest rates during the first quarter drove a Freddie Mac indicator higher for the first time since mid-2023, while a leading investment firm announced a deal aimed at boosting originations for government-sponsored enterprise financing.

Proceeds could be used to support the company's loan originations as well pay down existing debt coming due in the next three years.

Markets appeared to welcome signs of future rate relief, with the latest Freddie Mac average falling for the fifth time in six weeks.

Homeowners responded to moderating interest rates and brought in significantly more refinance volume, with Department of Veterans Affairs numbers more than doubling from the prior week.

Rate locks have increased every month this year, but May's pace came in more subdued than early-year numbers, according to Mortgage Capital Trading.

A Fannie Mae survey-high 86% of prospective buyers said it was a bad time to buy a home in May.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average dropped back below the 7% level as investors reacted positively to news the economy is slowing, Freddie Mac said.

Despite the surge of inventory, the number of available homes is still below pre-pandemic levels, while price movements show wide regional variations, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

Although experts are predicting an active season, actual damages could be lower depending on how many storms make landfall and where, Corelogic reported.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury also rose in the past week as bond and note auctions got tepid responses from investors.