Mortgage applications increased 0.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending November 21, 2025.
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Planet Financial Group, a national financial services company with integrated capabilities across origination, servicing, sub-servicing and asset management, advanced its all-weather strategy in the third quarter of 2025. The company delivered record lock volumes, expanded its Co-Issue program, scaled Servicing and Sub-servicing, and continued to grow its Distributed Retail channel.
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Against the backdrop of significant changes to the mortgage industry, new research from Experian spotlights U.S. renters’ current sentiments around the prospect of homeownership and reveals nearly half (47%) believe they’ll be ready to purchase a home within the next four years. That figure jumps to 67% when looking over the next eight years.
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MISMO announced a call for industry professionals to join the Title and Closing Documents to Data Development Workgroup (DWG) to support development of the Title Order Dataset Specification. This new initiative will define a standardized dataset for exchanging title order information between lenders, title providers, and technology vendors.
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CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC (“CCM”), the nation’s largest distributed-retail mortgage lender, announced that its direct parent company, CrossCountry Intermediate HoldCo, LLC (the “Company”), priced its upsized offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 6.750% senior notes due 2032 (the “Notes”).
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Alpha7X, an agentic AI utility infrastructure that connects, validates and synchronizes mortgage data and eliminates redundant loan reviews, announced the appointments of three senior executives to its leadership team. The company named Mo Asady as chief technology officer, Mark Braden as chief strategy officer and Lynn Calahan as senior product director to accelerate adoption of its patent-pending platform.
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DocMagic launched its in-person electronic notarization (IPEN) capability, extending the company’s Total eClose platform to support more closing scenarios and borrower preferences across the country. IPEN offers lenders, settlement agents, notaries and borrowers an additional digital option for situations where remote online notarization (RON) is not jurisdictionally permitted or simply not the preferred experience.
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Homebuyer affordability improved in October, with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants decreasing to $2,039 from $2,067 in September. 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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Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) has implemented FirstClose’s Equity Order Management to automate settlement workflows for its home equity lending operations.
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MISMO published the new Federal Government Housing Agency Servicing Dataset in ‘Candidate Recommendation’ status, indicating the standard has been thoroughly reviewed by a wide range of organizations and industry participants and is available for use across the industry.
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