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The decision raised major questions about what’s next for a company that was pushing deeper into the U.S. housing market as part of its bid to transform itself from an online listings giant into a buyer and seller of thousands of homes a month.

Valon Technologies Inc., a startup that operates a digital mortgage-servicing platform, raised $43.9 million in equity funding from investors including affiliates of Starwood Capital Group and Freedom Mortgage.

A report by the agency found that consumers in majority Black neighborhoods were more than twice as likely as those in white neighborhoods to lodge complaints with the credit bureaus over information in their files. Meanwhile, disputes were less common among older borrowers.

The transaction expands the investment management company’s portfolio of mortgage and real estate companies, which includes Selene, Deephaven and Progress Residential.

The business hit a major snag in recent months as the company’s algorithms caused it to overpay for houses just as the heated U.S. market began to cool slightly, forcing it to list properties at a loss.

After closing its merger with Caliber, the company also hopes to pare down expenses by at least 10%.

Lawmakers from both parties are pushing for legislation to automatically substitute a new interest rate benchmark for the expiring London interbank offered rate in certain hard-to-amend legacy contracts.

But the number of prospects remains at the high end of its pre-pandemic range.

Values are predicted to increase by just a fraction of the rate they had in 2020, CoreLogic said.

A majority of the 49 economists in the survey predicted the U.S. central bank will begin the taper in November and wrap it up by mid-2022, curbing the current $120 billion monthly buying pace by reducing Treasuries by $10 billion a month and mortgage-backed securities by $5 billion.