The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp., Washington, D.C., has announced that its outstanding program volume has reached a record level of about $7 billion.The new level was achieved with the completion of a recent guarantee transaction involving $1 billion of five-year agricultural mortgage-backed notes. The notes are collateralized by an obligation of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. that is, in turn, collateralized by Farmer Mac-eligible agricultural real estate mortgage loans, Farmer Mac said. The government-sponsored enterprise can be found online at http://www.farmermac.com.
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Rocket jumps first to raise 2027 conforming loan limits to $845,000, with Rate and CrossCountry matching; UWM's move still pending marking an early signal of IMB competitive positioning.
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Sypher Capital Management announced the public launch of its new independent comparison site for bitcoin-backed loans and mortgages last week.
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Consumer advocacy group Better Markets filed a lawsuit in federal district court Thursday claiming the Federal Reserve's top regulator coached bankers on how to comment on proposed capital rules in "secret meetings."
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From higher immediate pricing to long-term impacts on the housing market, originators are assessing what the rise in the 10-year Treasury yield means.
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Atlas VMS acquired CloseClear.ai to help lenders prevent post-appraisal GSE buybacks. The tech continuously matches active pipelines against live disaster maps to plug closing blind spots.
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BTIG is predicting mortgage origination volume for loanDepot, PennyMac Financial Services, Rithm, Rocket Cos., and UWM Holdings combined will be 5% lower than the industry consensus for the third quarter.
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