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Rocket expands on VantageScore 4.0 pilot for agency, VA loans

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Rocket Mortgage and Rocket Pro provided additional details this week on their rollout of VantageScore 4.0 in mortgage lending after officially announcing last week that they have started using VantageScore 4.0 alongside Classic FICO scores. Heather Lovier, chief operating officer of Rocket Companies, told HousingWire that VantageScore 4.0 can currently be used for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and […]

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Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Pro adopt VantageScore 4.0

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Rocket Mortgage and Rocket Pro announced Thursday that they have begun using VantageScore 4.0 alongside Classic FICO scores in the mortgage qualification process, a move the company said is aimed at expanding access to home financing. Rocket’s crosstown rival, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) began allowing its brokers to access both FICO and VantageScore credit scoring models for conventional loans

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Redfin Early Access adds pre-market and coming soon listings

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Redfin has launched Redfin Early Access, a new search category on Redfin.com and its app that surfaces pre-market and “coming soon” listings that are not yet broadly available on other major real estate sites, the company said in an announcement Monday. The new category aggregates two kinds of inventory: Redfin Coming Soon listings that appear

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Rocket Pro extends 100 bps broker credit into May

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Rocket Pro is extending a key pricing incentive for mortgage brokers through May while also expanding its non-QM product offerings, moves aimed at helping brokers close more loans in a challenging housing market. The moves are part of the February 2026 promise the Detroit-based company made to its business partners: a “Power Play” announcement on

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Pre-marketing listings grows across Compass, Zillow and eXp

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With more companies signing on to pre-marketing platforms, it appears that the new trend of pre-marketing listings is here to stay, at least for the moment. While the notion of a coming soon listing is nothing new, with numerous MLSs across the country offering some variation of this status, more and more listing portals and

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Rocket Close, AWS collaborate on AI system to automate mortgage document workflows

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Rocket Close announced Thursday that it has significantly reduced the time required to process mortgage documents by deploying a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rocket Close, which processes about 2,000 abstract document packages daily, previously relied on manual workflows that took up to 10 hours per package

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Rocket moves to dismiss RESPA suit, citing safe harbor and lack of injury

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Detroit-based Rocket Companies this week moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), arguing that plaintiffs failed to demonstrate injury, relied on claims beyond the one-year statute of limitations and did not sufficiently plead unjust enrichment. The class-action suit, filed in late January, alleges that homebuyers who began

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Compass, Rocket, Redfin urge MLSs to allow seller-directed pre-marketing

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Compass International Holdings, Redfin and Rocket Companies are urging MLSs to adopt policies that support pre-marketing and phased marketing distribution and to cease penalizing or punishing agents for carrying out “seller-directed marketing plans.”  The companies, which entered into a mutually exclusive deal to publish Compass coming soon listings on Redfin in late February 2026, made

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Rocket Pro doubles broker credits with Compass deal, unveils ‘Jupiter’ LOS

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Rocket Pro, the wholesale lending arm of Rocket Mortgage, announced a partnership with Compass to offer additional credits to brokers. It also unveiled a new loan origination system during its Ignite26 event on Thursday. Under a new program called Pro Purchase Power, brokers will receive 40 basis points when working with a Compass buyer’s agent,

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Compass Coming Soon listings to appear on Redfin

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Compass International Holdings (CIH), the parent company of real estate brokerage Compass, is teaming up with Rocket Companies and Redfin to display its Compass Coming Soon listings for Redfin’s 60 million monthly unique visitors to see.  CIH and Rocket announced the partnership Thursday afternoon. In an email sent to Compass agents by Reffkin and obtained

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