ATTOM released its latest Special Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing markets around the United States that are more or less vulnerable to declines, based on home affordability, equity and other measures in the first quarter of 2025. The report shows that California and New Jersey had high concentrations of counties considered most at-risk.
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Planet Financial Group, LLC, a vertically integrated mortgage platform, has successfully closed an offering of $125 million add-on to its existing $475 million 10.5% senior unsecured notes due Dec. 15, 2029. The offering was priced at 98.5% of par, resulting in a yield of approximately 10.9%.
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Mortgage applications increased 12.5 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 6, 2025. Last week’s results included an adjustment for the Memorial Day holiday.
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Land Gorilla, a provider of construction loan management software, introduced a new tool that automates the generation of state-specific lien waivers to facilitate safe construction loan disbursements.
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Mortgage credit availability increased in May according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology.
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MISMO published a new Appraisal Procurement Dataset Specification designed to facilitate and standardize the ordering of property services including appraisals.
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Dark Matter Technologies launched enhancements to the dual automated underwriting system (AUS) submission feature within the Empower® loan origination system (LOS).
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Optimal Blue launched a new product that helps originators efficiently track and identify refinance opportunities so they can reengage borrowers with eligible refinance options at the right time. Available to Optimal Blue PPE users, Capture for Originators dramatically reduces the manual effort loan officers currently spend evaluating refinance potential by automatically analyzing entire portfolios each month and putting recapture opportunities directly into originators’ hands.
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Prudent AI, a pioneer in AI-driven mortgage technology, launched Upfront Automated Underwriting System (AUS) purpose-built for the Non-QM lending market.
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