Wednesday is largely a placeholder as 2025's relevant trading days evaporate. Apart from the year-end influences on the ...

Lender and Broker Services, Products, and Software Warehouse lending got a major upgrade in 2025. OptiFunder has transformed ...

Unemployment Not High Enough For a Full-Fledged Rally If the only metric from this morning's jobs report was the uptick in ...

Running a mortgage company, turns out, isn’t free, and lenders are trying to cut costs and increase efficiency everywhere.

There was a decent chance that rates would have made a fairly big move today in response to the release of November's jobs ...

Fairly Calm Monday. Jobs Report on Deck Monday ended up being a forgettable December trading day with modest overnight gains ...

Mortgage rates were just slightly lower to start the new week. This leaves the average lender's top tier 30yr fixed rate almost dead center in the narrow range that's been intact since early September ...

The Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey® is weekly mortgage rate survey collected by Freddie Mac since April 1971. Lenders from around the country are surveyed each week, from Monday to ...

Mortgage rates were surprisingly steady on Tuesday with most lenders roughly in line with Monday's levels. Why surprising? ...

What happened with the DSCR appraisal issue in Baltimore earlier this year?” Good question. Baltimore is not alone: This week ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is responsible for the two most important economic reports to the bond market: The ...

If there was one metric in this morning's data that should be helping the bond market, it's the uptick in the unemployment rate from 4.4% in September to 4.6% in November (a new cycle high). This is ...