As natural disasters are becoming increasingly devasting, homeowners insurance is struggling to keep up.

The company wants to help real estate agents become mortgage brokers and close loans with less overhead costs.

Experienced appraisers combine flood disclosure information and local knowledge to provide appraisal values that reflect the underlying risk to the property. And less-experienced appraisers were found to assign higher property values to homes in flood areas.

Refinance and reset activity accounted for 56% of the record $532 billion of CLO issued last year, including a number of deals restructured for the second or third time. (Includes two data tables.)

Obstacles like how to deal with the implicit guarantee and excessively high capital requirements make it unlikely that the GSEs will exit conservatorship under Trump, though the chances are higher than before his election.

The $525 million ABS backed by private loans was placed exclusively with funds and accounts managed by PGIM.

Mortgage real estate investment trusts can still sell unsecured notes to investors, but it’s not as cheap as it was a few years back.

The fund will invest in subordinate asset tranches of ABS.

For hours, it was unclear whether a White House memo freezing federal funding would impact mortgage programs. In the meantime, government agencies announced that their single-family mortgage programs were unaffected by the planned funding pause.

The warehouse lending business remains profitable, but that doesn’t mean the sector is without challenges. There’s been two recent exits, but on the plus-side, the nation’s ninth-largest warehouse shop has filed for an initial public offering with plans to quickly double its business.