Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Serving military buyers in sight unseen home purchases

Active Duty Servicemembers oftentimes don’t have the luxury of walking through a home in person before making an offer. Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders, deployment schedules and tight reporting deadlines mean they’re making one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives from halfway across the globe. That changes the job for a real […]

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Highest Mortgage Rates in Over a Year, But Just Barely

Bonds lost ground today, largely due to mechanical, month-end trading (i.e. not due to economic data, inflation, or news headlines). When bonds lose ground, rates rise, all else equal. Mortgage rates were already fairly close to longer-term highs last week. Today’s increase was just enough to nudge the average top-tier 30yr fixed rate to 6.87%–the

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Redfin CEO Alessio Sanfilippo

Rocket names Redfin CEO, Veterans United adds to c-suite

Rocket Cos. appoints Alessio Sanfilippo as CEO of Redfin Redfin CEO Alessio Sanfilippo Rocket Cos. named Alessio Sanfilippo CEO of its Redfin subsidiary. Sanfilippo joins Redfin from Meta, where he served as vice president of insights for Reality Labs, leading global teams across data science, data engineering and user research. He previously captained data and

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