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Top Refinance Options for Homeowners in 2026: Your Guide to Savings
Refinancing Updated 2026 Top Refinance Options for Homeowners in 2026: Your Guide to Savings By Sarah Peterson | April 15, 2026 The landscape of mortgage refinancing has evolved significantly since the days of the Home Affordable Refinance Program...
Urban Financial: Top Reverse Lender
For the second time in one year, the biggest reverse mortgage lender is exiting the business. The departures leave Urban Financial Group Inc. as the biggest fish in a quickly evaporating pond. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., originated in excess of 15,000...
Market Index Slips Despite Better Rates
PRESS RELEASE Weekly Mortgage Market Index Slips Despite Improved Rates DALLAS -- (July 23, 2012) New mortgage activity took a dip this week, with inquiries for jumbo mortgages leading the pack. The decline came despite a new low for mortgage...
Mortgage Daily Journalists, Reporters and Writers
Reporter Photo About AIMEE BROWN DAVID E. BRUMBAUGH JEFFREY E. BUECHLER LISA D. BURDEN MICHAEL PATRICK CARNEY PATRICK CROWLEY Patrick Crowley is a political reporter and columnist and former business writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer. DAVE CZACH...
Englesbe Backs Loggerhead Center at Palm Beach Event
RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation Completes $94 Million Equity Private Placement of Convertible Preferred Stock CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- (Aug. 24, 2018) RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation ("RoundPoint"), one of the nation's top...
Record Purchase Lending at Guild, Staffing Grows
Net Branch Companies Tout GrowthAmerican Pacific, PRMI and Allied report new branches February 5, 2008 By SAM GARCIA As firms collapsed and more than 100,000 employees left the mortgage industry last year, three net branch companies are reporting...
Mike Rippy Named LandSafe CTO
LandSafe Appoints Mike Rippy To Chief Technology Officer Position PLANO, Texas (March 5, 2001) - Mike Rippy, a senior vice president at Countrywide Home Loans, has been named chief technology officer of LandSafe, Inc., LandSafe President and Chief...
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Mortgage Rates Today: Daily 30-Year Rate 6.70% Aug 13 2026
30-Year Fixed 6.70% 15-Year Fixed 5.99% 5/1 ARM APR 6.20% Source: Bankrate (780 FICO, single-family, primary residence) Mortgage rates today held the 30-year fixed at 6.70%, unchanged from yesterday's 6.70%. The 15-year fixed sits at 5.99% and the...
Your Parents’ Help Needs a Paper Trail. Here’s Why
Your father transfers $40,000 for the down payment. It lands in your account, you tell your loan officer, and three weeks later underwriting asks for his bank statements. He is offended, you are embarrassed, and closing slips a week — all of which...
Mortgage Rates Today: Daily 30-Year Rate 6.70% Aug 12 2026
30-Year Fixed 6.70% 15-Year Fixed 6.02% 5/1 ARM APR 6.43% Source: Bankrate (780 FICO, single-family, primary residence) Mortgage rates today climbed to 6.70% on the 30-year fixed, up 6 basis points from 6.64% yesterday. The 15-year fixed sits at...
Your HOA Dues Just Cost You $63,000 of House
Two condos, both listed at $350,000. One has $150 monthly dues, the other $550. To an underwriter these are not the same purchase — the second buyer needs to qualify for $400 more every month, which at 6.55% removes roughly $63,000 of borrowing...
Mortgage Rates Today: Daily 30-Year Rate 6.64% Aug 11 2026
30-Year Fixed 6.64% 15-Year Fixed 5.95% 5/1 ARM APR 6.15% Source: Bankrate (780 FICO, single-family, primary residence) Mortgage rates today eased to 6.64% on the 30-year fixed, down from 6.69% yesterday. The 15-year fixed sits at 5.95% and the 5/1...
Mortgage Rate Forecast: Week of August 10 – 14, 2026
Weekly Mortgage Rate Forecast Mortgage Rate Forecast: Week of August 10 – 14, 2026 By Darryl Linnington | Published: August 14, 2026 | Reading time: ~5 min Mortgage Rate Forecast This Week at a Glance Current 30-Year Fixed...
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