Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported a pre-tax net production profit of $727 on each loan they originated in the first quarter of 2026, compared to a net production profit of $674 per loan in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) newly released Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report.
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Planet, a specialty finance company focused on the servicing and origination of mortgage loans, has expanded its product offering to include Non-Agency lending.
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The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.44 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of the first quarter of 2026, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.
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EquityProtect, an innovator in real estate fraud prevention and data security, has surpassed $1 billion in protected property value — a milestone that arrives as FBI data shows real estate fraud losses topping $173 million in a single year and as millions of homeowners across 16 states remain without any dedicated deed-fraud law to protect them.
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GO Mortgage launched its Third-Party Origination (TPO) channel, introducing a wholesale platform designed to directly challenge the legacy systems and operating models that have long defined the broker channel.
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ServiceLink, a provider of tech-enabled services for all phases of the mortgage lifecycle, welcomes Ryan Reaves as a vice president, national sales executive within its default division.
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Mortgage credit availability decreased in April according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology.
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Nationally, homes are on the market for a median of 66 days in 2026, nine days longer than last year’s median of 57 days, according to a new report from Best Interest Financial, a St. Louis-based real estate company.
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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) released its May 2026 ICE Mortgage Monitor report. The analysis found that U.S. home prices rose 0.32% in April on a seasonally adjusted basis — the strongest single-month gain in nearly two years.
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The American Financial Services Association (AFSA), the country’s largest and oldest national consumer credit trade group, released its quarterly Consumer Credit Conditions (C3) Index, a survey of leading providers of consumer credit, including mortgages, vehicle financing, personal installment loans, and credit cards. Here’s what it said:
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