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Trade association representing the U.S. real estate finance industry, tracking mortgage rates, lending volume, and industry performance data.
S&P Global assigned preliminary ratings from B to AAA to an Aven home equity deal underwritten 100% on VantageScore 4.0. One deal built with conservative inputs shows S&P's method works, and the test for other lenders is whether it holds outside HELOCs.
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FHFA gave VantageScore pricing parity with FICO classic, but 5% to 6% of loans in its market use it, per industry data Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyzed. MBA's Bob Broeksmit says the choice cuts borrower costs, while William Raveis Mortgage will stay on FICO until forced.
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Treasury sold $39 billion of 10-year notes at a 5.30% yield, its highest auction yield since November 2000. Bidders showed up in size, so the cost lands on earlier buyers of the same notes and on a Treasury that raised about $37 billion for $39 billion of debt.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac grew multifamily loans 8.2% in the year to the second quarter, nearly triple the 2.9% pace of banks' commercial real estate books. That growth is apartment debt, so Wolf Street's figures do not show office losses from the low-rate years moving to taxpayers.
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Mortgage Bankers Association data put the 30-year fixed rate at 7.49%, its highest since November 2023, with purchase applications down 15% on the year. Buyers are retreating at current prices, and homeowners who want cash have moved to home-equity lines.
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Pennymac is adding VantageScore 4.0 to all three of its lending channels, so the three largest US mortgage originators now all use the score. The next fight is whether FHFA lets the agencies drop from three credit reports per loan to two.
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Freddie Mac's benchmark 30-year mortgage rate rose to 7.28% this week, a sixth straight weekly increase and the highest since November 2023. Since February it has risen as far as the 10-year Treasury yield, so the cost of a move this fall depends on the bond market's inflation outlook.
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The daily 30-year fixed reached 7.24% last week. Applications feeding Q4 closings are down far more than signed contracts, and the buyers still transacting are increasingly cash buyers.
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Matt Jones went to the Senate on Sept. 14 with backing from the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he ran government housing finance until March 2025, and from the private insurers who sell against FHA.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association's index counts loan programs on offer. The geography in the story comes from a LoanDepot manager in Edison, who says loan-to-value ratios are tightening out West and not yet in the Northeast.
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The IDP Accelerator and Quick Automate pitch rests on third-party mortgage economics plus one fictional lender. The touch-time saving is plausible; it is not the same clock as the 44 days.
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Independent mortgage bankers earned $973 per loan last quarter as volume hit a four-year high. Revenue per loan fell; expenses fell further. That is the whole story.
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