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January 2026

Housing absorption rate vs market size: Efficiency signals pressure

Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Housing Market, Housing Market Data, HWmember /

Data reflects single-family home market conditions as of the Jan. 3, 2026 weekly snapshot, based on HousingWire proprietary data. Housing markets are often evaluated by size: total sales, total dollar volume, total listings. Those metrics describe where activity is concentrated. They do not reliably indicate where competition is intensifying, where pricing power is shifting, or […]

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Finance of America tops HMBS market with 30% share

Finance of America, HMBS, HWmember, Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, New View Advisors, Origination, PHH Mortgage Corp, Reverse /

Finance of America (FOA) maintained its position as the top issuer of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage-backed Securities (HMBS) in 2025, underscoring significant changes in the reverse mortgage securitization market over the past decade. FOA issued $1.87 billion in HMBS last year, capturing roughly 30% of total market share, according to league tables compiled by New

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Optimal Blue, lenders contest software price fixing claims

Law and legal issues, Mortgage technology /

Optimal Blue and dozens of lenders are poking holes in an antitrust case from borrowers, suggesting a core flaw in their claims in that the vendor doesn’t operate a pricing algorithm.  Processing Content Defendants including 26 of the industry’s most prominent originators hinted at their arguments Monday in their first formal response to the lawsuit

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Guild uses LoanBeam to speed non-QM income underwriting

LOAN PRODUCTS, Mortgage technology, Originations, Underwriting /

Guild Mortgage will be using Loanlogics’ LoanBeam NQM to assist in underwriting its non-qualified mortgage production by automating the income analysis process. Processing Content “Non-QM mortgages create greater potential for lender error due to the unconventional financial profiles of borrowers who don’t typically meet standard income, employment or credit criteria,” said Dave Parker, Loanlogics’ CEO,

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UWM offer pricing promo to brokers for its 40th anniversary

M&A, Marketing, MARKETING TO BORROWERS, Mortgage brokers, Originations, UWM /

United Wholesale Mortgage is running a pricing promotion in honor of its 40th anniversary. Processing Content Under this latest program, UWM 40, mortgage brokers have a 40-basis-point pricing incentive through the end of February on conventional, Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Agriculture mortgages. It can be applied to purchase loans as

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Walker & Dunlop, Pretium launch $250M affordable JV

Housing affordability, Industry News, Originations /

Walker & Dunlop is partnering with Pretium in a $250 million commitment to affordable multifamily housing. Processing Content Walker & Dunlop Affordable Bridge Capital, the joint venture, will originate flexible, short-term first-mortgage bridge loans for properties being acquired, refinanced or prepared for long-term government-affordable programs, such as low-income housing tax credit, Section 8 and tax-exempt

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FHA reverse mortgage properties go up for sale

Distressed, Reverse mortgages, Secondary markets, Servicing /

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be selling thousands more reverse mortgages that have been called due-and-payable on occupied homes, continuing a practice that began late last year. Processing Content More than 2,500 nonvacant loans with a total principal balance around $730 million are going up for sale on Feb. 10. Until recently, department’s

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Trump backs ban on institutional buyers in housing market

Housing, Nonbank, Politics and policy /

Key insight: President Donald Trump said he would ban institutional investment in single-family homes, and called on Congress to codify the changes.  What’s at stake: Banks are often financiers of institutional investments in single-family housing stock.  Forward look: The White House doesn’t have unilateral power to ban institutional investors from purchasing single family homes, but

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Blackstone, homebuilder shares plunge on Trump housing comments

Housing markets, REALTORS & HOMEBUILDERS /

Shares of Blackstone Inc. and other housing-related companies tumbled after President Donald Trump said he would move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes.  Processing Content Blackstone stock fell by as much as 9.3%, before trimming some losses, after Trump said he was “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more

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