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Stakeholders are watching carefully as the 2023 crisis and a capital proposal increase banker wariness of mortgage assets, speakers at Invisso's MBS Forum said.

The digital lender increased its marketing spend in the first quarter of 2024, with the ultimate goal of "Uber-izing the loan officer."

The publicly traded title holding companies all had stronger earnings as the mortgage market improved from one year prior.

There's temporary leeway on formal compliance with replacement-cost value requirements in order to sort out insurer concerns with a recent re-emphasis on them.

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The San Diego company was back in the black with a net income of $28.5 million in the first quarter of 2024, up from a net loss of $93 million the previous quarter.

The home purchase market right now is healthier than it was last year, said CEO Mat Ishbia, noting a 24% increase in volume over the recent period compared to Q1 2023.

Freddie's plan "has merit," but if also used by Fannie, it might create competition for many closed-end, second liens in PL RMBS, according to new research.

While the company made headway in reducing operational costs, it incurred several million dollars worth of expenses as it dealt with the January incident.

The Federal Open Market Committee thinks that confusing everyone completely is good for confidence, that intangible but entirely necessary ingredient for financial stability, writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

The reverse-mortgage lender saw a quarterly loss but expects originations to increase 10% in the second quarter, as it attempts to address high-yield debt concerns.

At the same time, market share among a trio of the mortgage insurers shifted, data compiled by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods found.

Rocket Cos. reported an increase in gain-on-sale margin but warned that going forward it is likely to slip back to levels seen in the second half of last year.

The 2022 vintage had a higher percentage of purchase mortgages, as well as 30-year fixed-rate loans versus the 2021 production, an annual Federal Housing Finance Agency report said.

But the mortgage unit of Intercontinental Exchange narrowed its quarterly losses and touted the addition of several new customers this year in its earnings call.

Like some other servicers, it recorded a positive change in valuations during the first quarter, contrasting a negative adjustment in the previous period.

Zillow Group Inc. shares fell after the real estate company published a second-quarter outlook that called for lower revenue in its core business and predicted stalling growth in the broader U.S. housing market.

Title insurers, whose activity is highly correlated to mortgage production, wrote $15.1 billion in premiums during 2023, down from $21 billion in 2022 and $26.2 billion for the year before that.

The Federal Open Market Committee held the federal funds rate at current levels, citing "lack of further progress" toward meeting inflation goals.

The enterprise was able to improve on its year-over-year number for loan purchases and earnings in the seasonally weak period, but both were down on a consecutive quarter basis.