ATTOM released its Q1 2026 U.S. Home Affordability Report showing that homes were less affordable than historical averages in 97 percent of counties with sufficient data to analyze for the first quarter of 2026.
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The level of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding at the end of 2025 was $214 billion (4.5 percent) higher than at the end of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding quarterly report.
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Vertyx, a provider of intelligent mortgage servicing technology built for enhanced portfolio performance, launched Homeowner Navigator, a platform providing AI-driven homeowner insights and omnichannel engagement with borrowers. The platform is designed to help mortgage servicers maintain visibility into borrower needs after closing, when opportunities to support retention, recapture and broader relationship growth are often harder to identify.
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Argyle launched a 3-in-1 Verification Suite, a unified verification product that brings verification of income (VOI), verification of employment (VOE) and verification of assets (VOA) together in a single, consumer-permissioned workflow. The consolidated Verification Suite enables mortgage lenders to manage multiple verification types through one interface, reducing the operational complexity of working across multiple vendors, integrations and contracts.
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Prudent AI launched an automated rental income analysis within its Upfront Income platform, natively integrated with Fannie Mae’s Income Calculator.
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For the 8th straight year we are honoring The Most Powerful Women in FinTech today. No matter if you are a lender, a servicer, a technology provider, a consultant, etc., we want to recognize your efforts. APPLY TODAY!
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There was a time when people swore the earth was flat and despite Aristotle’s proclamations to the contrary, it wasn’t until 1522 when Ferdinand Magellan proved them wrong. I use this example today as most traditional “Doc Prep” systems still produce static, flat file dumb PDF’s and then use OCR scanning to get to the data. Even with the advent of AI, if you’re still using dumb PDF’s to extract unstructured and non-standard data from them you are going to get totally different and varying results across systems as there is no consistency or uniformity in the data format or how it gets defined (descriptions) and interpreted.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for February 2026 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 0.9 percent from a year ago. Compared to January 2026, applications decreased by 1 percent. This change does not include any adjustment for typical seasonal patterns.
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Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported a pre-tax net production profit of $674 on each loan they originated in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to a net production profit of $1,201 per loan in the third quarter of 2025, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) newly released Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report.
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Tavant, a platform-powered AI transformation specialist, announced that Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. (PRMI), a national, independent, full-service residential mortgage lender, successfully deployed Tavant’s TOUCHLESS® AI Mortgage Automation Platform across its branches nationwide.
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