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With home prices also climbing up faster than expected for the time of the year, median new loan payments headed higher by more than 2%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury also rose in the past week as bond and note auctions got tepid responses from investors.

The retail giant has scrapped its credit card partnership with Capital One, its second public spat in recent years with a partner bank. Analysts say it may be a sign that Walmart wants to launch its own credit card on what it hopes will be a financial super-app.

An uptick in interest rates kept borrowers on the sidelines, as both purchases and refinances dropped, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Over 54% of borrowers with a mortgage say they only got one mortgage offer, a LendingTree survey said.

If approved by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the program will not lead to large amounts of home equity being extracted, nor is it mission creep, wrote Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst Bose George.

Unusual spikes in property taxes and insurance in many areas are causing servicing concerns that mortgage companies may not be used to managing.

Prices in a measure of 20 cities increased 7.4% from a year earlier, larger than the 7.3% annual gain in February, an S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index shows.

Gen Z is buying homes at higher rates than previous generations, and finding creative ways to save money in the process.

A pair of recently created consulting firms seek to shift lender thinking to make compliance a front-of-mind target, not merely a cost center.