Given confusion around the commission structure for home sales, it’s important for loan officers to advise real estate agents and become a source of knowledge for homebuyers, according to Jonathon Haddad, CEO of the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts.

Mark Cunningham, CEO at TRAiNED, believes new technologies can be leveraged to better reach so-called digital native homebuyers.

MFA Financial, Rithm Capital and Annaly Capital Management all started marketing new non-agency or jumbo MBS deals this week.

A cooling job market is good news for the prospect of interest rate cuts.

Issuance of non-agency MBS looks to pick up after a slow period before Labor Day.

In the long run, mortgage brokers and real estate agents believe the NAR commission settlement will boost business.

Among a group of 20 prominent nonprime servicers, portfolios increased by 0.6% in the second quarter.

Brian Devlin, president and CEO of Arc Home, said investor appetite for non-QMs is the strongest it’s ever been.

ARMs accounted for 13.6% of first-lien originations in the second quarter of 2024 compared to 11.7% in the first quarter.

Overall nonprime mortgage servicing portfolios remained steady in the second quarter despite some sizeable increases at some servicers. (Includes data table.)