Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050624
Chunk: 9

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 touching the low 6% range in September 2024. After a slow climb throughout 2023 and 2024, the effective mortgage rate outstanding has just inched higher to 4.11% as of the second quarter of 2025, the latest data available, up from only 4.03% to end 2024. This rate, which measures the rate on outstanding mortgage debt, is 80 basis points higher than the low established at the end of the first quarter of 2022 but remains well below prevailing rates, underscoring the stickiness of the “lock-in effect” or disincentive for existing homeowners to sell their homes because their current mortgage rate is well below current market rates.

Total existing home inventory steadied during the third quarter of 2025, sitting at 1.53 million units in August 2025, the latest data available, little changed since May 2025. This is the highest level of inventory since June 2020 but hardly breaches the typical inventory levels of 1.5 to 2 million units from 2016 to 2019 and well below the range of 1.7 to 2.5 million units from 2000 to 2004, periods with a smaller count of U.S. households. When evaluating new listings, which are a timelier barometer of 

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activity, year-to-date inventory is 1% lower year-over-year and is 22% below average year-to-date listings through August 2025 from 2015 through 2022. This reduced level of activity follows an annual shortage of over 1 million new listings in each of 2023 and 2024 compared to annual activity in 2015 through 2019 as well as pandemic-affected 2020 through 2022, underscoring the limited supply theme.

Presentation of investment, financing and hedging activities

In the "Investment activities," "Financing activities," "Hedging activities," and "Liquidity and capital resources" sections of this Item 2, we present information on our investment portfolio and the related financing arrangements inclusive of unconsolidated ownership interests in affiliates that are accounted for under GAAP using the equity method. Our investment portfolio excludes our investment in Arc Home.

Our investment portfolio and the related financing arrangements are presented along with a reconciliation to GAAP. This presentation of our investment portfolio is consistent with how our management team evaluates the business, and we believe this presentation, when considered with the GA