Panelists at the Non-QM Forum noted the growing demand for non-QM whole-loan sales.

Hometap started offering HEIs in 2018 and has originated 11,373 HEI contracts across 18 states with an aggregate investment amount of more than $1.1 billion, according to Morningstar.

“There have been just two months in the past decade with fewer home sales [than in May 2024]: October 2023, when mortgage rates jumped to a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to a record low,” Redfin said.

Banks and thrifts held $2.52 trillion of first liens in portfolio as of the end of March.

Redfin’s homebuyer demand index declined by 2% on a monthly basis in early June.

It’s the first non-agency MBS with a significant amount of electronic promissory notes, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Newfi said it chose Dunmor as a partner because of its technological expertise in the RTL space.

VA stressed that borrowers should still negotiate their buyer-broker fee and that homebuyers can still ask sellers to pay the fees at closing.

SPS, which has been servicing residential loans since 1989, handles a portfolio of about $180 billion, largely of loans in non-agency mortgage-backed securities.

Morgan Stanley and Chase are marketing prime non-agency MBS with loans eligible for sale to the GSEs.