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Finance of America reports $80M profit, buys out Blackstone

Finance of America (FOA) continued its recent streak of growth in the second quarter of 2025, funding $602 million in mortgages and producing $80 million in net income. FOA, one of the nation’s leading reverse mortgage lenders, exceeded the top end of its stated quarterly guidance for investors as the $602 million in volume from […]

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Mortgage Rates Steadily Holding Longer-Term Lows

Although there were flashes of potential volatility in the underlying bond market at times today, mortgage rates made it through unscathed.  In other words, the volatility wasn’t sufficient to force the average lender to make mid-day changes to the rates they decided to offer this morning. Whereas yesterday saw an inconsequentially small increase of 0.01%

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MBA urges GSEs to end costly tri-merge credit reports

The Mortgage Bankers Association announced Wednesday that its Residential Board of Governors has passed a resolution calling for two influential government-sponsored enterprises to end their requirements for tri-merged credit reports. The move follows FHFA’s decision to allow score competition without changing tri-merge rules, and MBA’s earlier plan to explore the viability of using a single

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