Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Key insight: President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass legislation restricting institutional investors purchasing single family homes, following up on his executive order that the legislature would need to codify.  What’s at stake: Banks generally favor rhetoric that promotes housing availability and funding, since it helps produce more mortgages, but the institutional investor rhetoric is […]

It may not be as glamorous as being able to say mortgage rates are “in the 5s,” but at 6.00%, today’s MND rate index is a mere 0.01% higher than yesterday’s multi-year low.  For all practical purposes, this means the average borrower will see almost exactly the same rates as yesterday.  In many cases, the

Better is turning to crypto-linked capital to fund as much as $500 million in mortgages, betting the move can double originations and eventually push borrower rates below 5%.  Processing Content The lender is partnering with Framework Ventures to tap funding through the Sky stablecoin ecosystem, positioning the platform as an alternative source of warehouse liquidity