Planet Financial Group, LLC, a national financial services company with integrated capabilities across origination, servicing, sub-servicing and asset management, announces Brandon Bean has joined Planet Home Lending as SVP, National Fulfillment. Bean has more than two decades of experience in building strong retail operations and will help Planet in the rapid expansion of its Distributed Retail division.
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The MBA Opens Doors Foundation (Opens Doors) welcomed John Hedlund, 2026 MBA Vice Chair and Vice Chairman of ICE Mortgage Technology, to its Board of Directors. Opens Doors provides mortgage and rental assistance to families with critically ill or injured children, allowing parents and guardians to be by a child’s side during treatment, without fear of jeopardizing their home.
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AD Mortgage announced the upcoming launch of AD Power Jumbo, a new unified jumbo mortgage program designed for qualified borrowers who don’t fit traditional bank guidelines.
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ICE Mortgage Technology, a neutral provider of an end-to-end mortgage platform and part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), released the November 2025 ICE First Look at mortgage delinquency, foreclosure and prepayment trends. It showed:
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MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released the following statement after the House Financial Services Committee’s markup and advancement of the Housing for the 21st Century Act and a bill that extends authorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP):
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The MBA Opens Doors Foundation (Opens Doors) announced a partnership with Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This partnership will allow the Foundation to grow its mission of providing mortgage and rental assistance to families with critically ill or injured children, ensuring parents and guardians can be by their child’s side during treatment without fear of losing their home.
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Usherpa reported that the fourth quarter of 2025 is shaping up to be the best period, from a new customer perspective, that the company has seen in over a year. Lenders are starting to sense that the industry may be returning to normal after more than three years of reduced activity.
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New research published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds that while Zillow’s widely used “Zestimate” home-valuation algorithm boosts efficiency in the residential real estate sector, it also significantly benefits lower-income neighborhoods even in situations where the algorithms are sometimes less accurate in those areas.
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Homebuyer affordability improved slightly in November, with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants decreasing to $2,034 from $2,039 in October. This is according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI), which measures how new monthly mortgage payments vary across time – relative to income – using data from MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey (WAS).
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