Interest rates jumped by more than 2 percentage points over the first quarter of 2021. That bolt-like spike in rates put many mortgage lenders into crisis mode.

Lenders saw the value of agency loans made at lower rates — in the 3% range — in 2021 and early January 2022 drop precipitously over the course of the first quarter. That negatively affected liquidity options in both the loan-trading and securitization markets as higher-rate loans [above 5%] subsequently hit the market. The same rate-spike dynamics hit non-QM lenders as well, with rates for details ⇒

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