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The 15-year average crossed the 5% threshold for the first time in over a decade.

A "Big 3" credit bureau is testing a direct data feed into a FICO score, and a top multifamily mortgage lender signed a multiyear contract with a high-profile fintech platform.

The venture-backed fintech also rolled out an option that allows the borrower to "undercollateralize" a property using the USDC stablecoin, pledged at 40% of the value.

Home values dropped for the first time in 31 months between June and July but this is obscured by 14.5% year-over-year appreciation.

Declines in both purchases and refinances contributed to fractionally lower activity, as rising interest rates provided no relief.

Housing's unusually high appreciation rates have now slowed for three months straight, and the number of metropolitan areas that are considered overvalued keeps growing, according to CoreLogic.

The company is acting nearly a month earlier than its competitors did in 2021, the first shot in this year's "loan limits wars."

This product, available throughout all of the company's channels, is characterized by interest-only payments over the first 10 years of the term.

The move comes amid a price war in the industry sparked by United Wholesale Mortgage.

Even though a Compass Point report states the pair have validated the credit scoring model and could implement it in the first quarter of 2023, interested parties would not verify it.