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Rocket jumps first to raise 2027 conforming loan limits to $845,000, with Rate and CrossCountry matching; UWM's move still pending marking an early signal of IMB competitive positioning.

Sypher Capital Management announced the public launch of its new independent comparison site for bitcoin-backed loans and mortgages last week.

Contract closings slipped 2% to an annualized rate of 3.98 million in August, data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors showed.

From higher immediate pricing to long-term impacts on the housing market, originators are assessing what the rise in the 10-year Treasury yield means.

Atlas VMS acquired CloseClear.ai to help lenders prevent post-appraisal GSE buybacks. The tech continuously matches active pipelines against live disaster maps to plug closing blind spots.

BTIG is predicting mortgage origination volume for loanDepot, PennyMac Financial Services, Rithm, Rocket Cos., and UWM Holdings combined will be 5% lower than the industry consensus for the third quarter.

Treasuries extended an earlier decline after the announcement, with the yield on 10-year notes up about 6 basis points to 4.85% as of early afternoon in New York. They earlier hit their highest level since 2023.

Higher borrowing costs have tamped down demand for loans. MBA's refinance index, a measure of loan applications, fell 6.2% to its lowest level since May 2025.

Researchers showed a message with no return address slips past Reject Direct Send. Credit unions were told to close this kind of gap in 2021.