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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

Appraisals, Appraisals and Valuations, Brokerage, Corcoran, Florida, HWmember, Luxury Real Estate, Real Estate, Valuation /

Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional data, market trends and proprietary engineering to produce highly localized property valuations. Housify’s system analyzes multiple data sources — including local MLS information, county GIS records and property appraiser data […]

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Newrez is waiving lender title insurance on some refis

HWmember, LendingLife, Mortgage, Mortgage Broker, NewRez, Origination, Refinancing, Title insurance, Wholesale Lending /

Multichannel mortgage lender Newrez has launched Newrez TitlePass for use in its wholesale channel, giving mortgage brokers a way to waive the lender title insurance requirement on certain refinance loans. This could potentially save borrowers hundreds or thousands of dollars in closing costs, the company said Monday. The program is offered exclusively through Newrez’s affiliated

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Logan Finance rolls out new product tier for high-balance non-QMs

HWmember, Lenders, Mortgage, Non-QM, Origination, Real Estate Investing /

Logan Finance Corp. announced Monday that it has launched a new premium tier within its Open Road product series aimed at borrowers seeking higher loan amounts than those typically offered through conventional or standard non-QM programs. The new offering, called Open Road Elevated, provides loan amounts of up to $5 million across four programs designed

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Why ARMs are rising even as rates drift lower

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In spite of downwardly trending rates last year, adjustable-rate mortgage volumes increased, defying traditional logic that has been “turned upside down,” according to analysis from Cotality. Processing Content Past history suggests ARM volume should have fallen as fixed rates dipped throughout 2025 to alleviate pressure on housing costs. The percentage of adjustable-rate loans among conventional

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Anthropic sues US government over supply chain risk label

Artificial Intelligence, FHFA, Mortgage technology /

Anthropic PBC sued the Defense Department for declaring that the artificial intelligence giant posed a risk to the US supply chain, further ramping up a high-stakes dispute with the Pentagon over safeguards on the company’s technology. Processing Content San Francisco-based Anthropic is challenging a decision by the department and other federal agencies like the Federal

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LoanDepot adds wholesale production 3 years after exit

LoanDepot adds wholesale production 3 years after exit

Career moves, LOAN PRODUCTS, loanDepot, Marketing, Originations, Underwriting, Wholesale lenders /

After exiting the channel approximately three-and-a-half years ago during a tough period for both the mortgage industry and its own business, LoanDepot is returning to the wholesale origination business. Processing Content “Serving brokers through wholesale naturally expands our multi-channel origination strategy and complements our direct-to-consumer, in-market retail, joint venture, and servicing businesses,” CEO Anthony Hsieh

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TransUnion fires latest volley in credit-score price war

TransUnion fires latest volley in credit-score price war

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TransUnion has further slashed its mortgage origination price for VantageScore 4.0, a metric the government-related secondary market is seeking to promote as an alternative to traditional measures available from FICO. Processing Content The considerably lower $0.99 price is down from $4, which already was a 50% discount relative to earlier pricing, said Satyan Merchant, the

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Originations hit 3.5-year high in Q4 boosted by refinancing

Industry News, Mortgage Rates, Originations, Refinance /

Mortgage originations hit a three-and-a-half-year high in the fourth quarter of last year, as year-low mortgage rates boosted refinance activity, new industry data found. Processing Content An estimated 565,000 first-lien refinances closed in the fourth quarter, up about 50% from a year prior and the most since the second quarter of 2022. This pushed total

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Treasury yields whipsaw as oil spike looms over Fed

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Treasuries opened softer this morning, but Friday’s trading was nothing short of insane. Processing Content One thing happened, which did seem to make sense, the yield curve finally had a day of steepening, but that was about it. After opening weaker in front of a shockingly soft jobs report, the 5-year yield dropped 7+ bps

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