After hitting 5.99% as recently as February 27th, top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rates are back over 6.5% for the average lender today–the highest they’ve been since September 3rd, 2025.  The entire month of March has been painful for many corners of the financial market and mortgage rates are not immune. The Iran war is […]

Mortgage rates hit 7-month highs last Friday, but recovered fairly nicely on the first two days of the present week. The past 2 days have been a bit rough, unfortunately. Over that time, the average top-tier 30yr fixed rate rose 0.14% to 6.43%–just a bit higher than last Friday’s 6.41%. Whereas mortgage rate volatility on

Palantir Technologies and Moder partnered to build an AI-powered mortgage operations platform and Freedom Mortgage was its first customer, the companies announced Thursday. Processing Content The cobuilt platform uses Palantir’s Ontology, a modeling layer that connects data to operational actions, to provide an agentic AI framework to integrate with existing systems of record. The platform