June 2025

Rocket introduces buy-before-you-sell bridge financing

Rocket Mortgage unveiled a new equity-backed financing product aimed at giving homebuyers an advantage when vying for homes in competitive markets. The Detroit-based lender’s new bridge loan offers prospective buyers the opportunity to draw into their accrued equity to put down an offer on a new purchase while still living in their existing property. Borrowers […]

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Jerome Powell

Republicans play nice with Powell despite Trump’s criticism

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in the House Financial Services Committee Tuesday morning.Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — House Republicans struck a mostly cordial tone with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a hearing at the House Financial Services Committee.  Trump, ahead of the hearing, called on Republicans to press Powell after he held interest rates

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Bank of America exits CFPB monitoring three years early

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut short a five-year agreement with Bank of America Corp. over the bank’s alleged submission of false mortgage data as the significantly curtailed government agency rolls back a bevy of settlements, ending the monitoring of BofA more than three years early. The bank “fulfilled the obligations” of the agreement signed

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