Abby Zimmardi

Some $1.35 billion of Pennymac’s securitized originations in the first three months of this year were loans eligible to be sold to the GSEs.

UWM’s correspondent sales of jumbo mortgages totaled $6.91 billion, down 8.6% from 2024.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs noted in a recent report that issuers who move forward with a clean-up can see improved economics by issuing new deals with seasoned mortgages.

The outlook among real estate investors is at its lowest level in the last three years, due in part to the war in Iran.

Market turmoil, the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges finally pushed Impac Mortgage Holdings to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April.

Real estate investor sentiment plummeted in the first quarter of 2026 to the lowest level in the 11-quarter history of the survey, according to a recent survey from RCN Capital.

Officials at Figure Technology Solutions see home equity lines of credit as a way to get into the residential mortgage market. They plan to expand into other offerings.

At the MBA’s secondary market conference this week, non-agency industry participants discussed how to keep non-QM originations flowing through market volatility.

“Get comfortable with reading the guidelines and understand what you want to be,” said Audrie Gregory, vice president of correspondent lending at Verus Mortgage Capital, a non-agency conduit.

The decline included a reduction in holdings of adjustable-rate mortgages.