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Approximately 54% of homeowners looked to a second lien product to access their home's stored value in the first quarter due to the "lock-in effect."

Better and Coinbase plan to make the product available to qualified borrowers nationwide by this summer. Interested customers can currently apply to a waitlist.

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The companies now anticipate generating around $14 billion in annual origination volume, making them one of the biggest lenders in the country.

A credit union service organization is buying the division, which includes mortgage services provider QRL, while the seller repositions its home loan business.

More than half of consumers worry about money daily, despite improved budgeting habits and, according to a Ramsey Solutions survey, declining mortgage concerns.

If pessimism about further rate declines pans out, it could add to tricky mortgage company involvement on home equity lending, panelists at an IMN meeting said.

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage average not only remains where it was in September, it is still nearly a half-percentage point above February's trough.

The areas cited by Attom Data Solutions all have similar characteristics, namely high unemployment rates and worse foreclosure activity than their peers.