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April 2026

MRED opens private listing network to agents nationwide with Compass data deal

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Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is opening its multiple listing service, including its Private Listing Network (PLN), to any licensed real estate agent nationwide and has secured a nationwide listing feed and membership subsidies from Compass International Holdings, the organizations announced Friday. The move extends MRED’s reach beyond its current footprint serving real estate professionals […]

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We may finally be near the bottom of the mortgage market cycle

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I started in mortgages in 2007 for a brokerage office in Salem, Oregon. Within my first year and a half, I was one of the top-producing loan officers in the office. At the same time, the world around me was coming apart.  I didn’t realize at the time that the industry I had just joined

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The cost of cheaper: Why lower score fees could raise mortgage costs

Contributors, Mortgage, Opinion, Origination /

The debate over FICO versus VantageScore has followed a familiar script: A headline price gets amplified into a savings narrative, that narrative becomes policy and then the secondary market quietly starts doing the math the advocates forgot to run. In a multi-trillion-dollar mortgage-backed security (MBS) market, the score fee is a rounding error. What is

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Retirement confidence declines as worries grow over Social Security, rising expenses

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Sixty-four percent of Americans say they feel confident they have enough money to live comfortably throughout retirement — down from last year — according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)’s 2026 Retirement Confidence Survey. The 36th annual survey, conducted online in January, is jointly produced by EBRI and Greenwald Research. Worker confidence fell to

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Reverse Focus co-founder Shannon Hicks to join HighTechLending

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Reverse Focus co-founder and longtime HECMWorld editor Shannon Hicks announced Thursday that he will leave the reverse mortgage technology and media firm on May 1 to become chief content officer at HighTechLending. Hicks has spent the past 15 years helping to build HECMWorld into an education and marketing platform focused on Home Equity Conversion Mortgages

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California court curbs Coastal Commission on building permits

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A California home builder sought to build three additional houses on lots it had owned for more than two decades in a coastal county. That should have been easy. It had already built four nearby homes. But it wasn’t. Years of court hearings followed when a state agency overrode San Luis Obispo County’s authority and

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Cotality hires Jason Nicosia to lead national real estate solutions

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Cotality has hired residential real estate and proptech veteran Jason Nicosia as senior principal of national real estate solutions, the company announced Thursday. In the senior leadership role, Nicosia will serve as a strategic adviser to Cotality’s enterprise real estate clients, helping align the company’s data and technology products with clients’ long-term business goals and

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Taylor Morrison pares incentives and leans into buyer choice

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Tactical discounts, escalating incentives, absorption-at-any-cost strategies, … you all well know the routine of buying sales and making next to no money in Spring 2026. But that’s not for everybody. Exceptions are out there, public and private. Taylor Morrison has chosen a playbook and is well into executing a game plan that leans on the

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Study finds racial gaps in Wells Fargo mortgage denials

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Wells Fargo’s mortgage lending patterns exhibit racial disparities that hurt minority families, multiple activist organizations say. Processing Content The mega bank denied Black, Latino and Asian mortgage applicants roughly twice as frequently as white applicants, according to a new study that analyzed almost 25,000 North Carolina mortgage applications and more than 16,000 loans at Wells

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Trump says he’ll probe banks over response to LA wildfires

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President Donald Trump said he would look into the actions of banks in their response to last year’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires following a meeting with that city’s mayor, Karen Bass. Processing Content Trump said he met with Bass and other officials to discuss the “progress made on the horrific fires that ravaged Los Angeles,

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