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Fortune
Aug 12
Current refi mortgage rates report for Aug. 12, 2026
See Wednesday’s report on average refi rates on different types of home loans.
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Anchorage Daily News
Aug 11
US stocks edge further from their records as oil prices keep swinging
Treasury yields have jumped since the war with Iran because of higher oil prices and worries about inflation, sending long-term mortgage rates to their highest levels in a year.
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HousingWire Automation
Aug 11
FirstTeam expands in Midwest with new Kansas City office
FirstTeam entered Kansas and Missouri via a Kansas City office with Rival Real Estate, growing to 62 offices and 2,200 agents.
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Flávia Furlan Nunes
Aug 11
Mortgage insurers face larger safety net rule for VantageScore 4.0
Mortgage insurers will be required to keep a larger safety net for mortgages originated using VantageScore 4.0 than for comparable loans using Classic FICO, according to new guidance from the governme
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HousingWire Automation
Aug 11
Lenders urged to solve business problems before adopting AI
HW AI Summit panelists said AI needs human oversight, vendor controls and monitoring to meet fair lending requirements.
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Jonathan Delozier
Aug 11
‘Sounds like competition to me’: Sizing up Google’s real estate play at the AI Summit
HousingWire's AI Summit welcomed Dan Snyder, CEO of Lower, and Chris Rediger, CEO of HouseCanary, to explore AI's home discovery impact.
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PBS News
Aug 11
U.S. existing homes fall 1.7% in July as record prices, high mortgage rates stifle would be-buyers
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year prove to be an insurmountable hurdle for many prospective homebuyers.
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Anchorage Daily News
Aug 11
US existing homes fall 1.7% in July as record prices, high mortgage rates stifle potential buyers
It is difficult to find good news about the U.S. housing market from the July report, said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.
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Sarah Wolak
Aug 11
AI agents could dominate home search, Lower and HouseCanary CEOs say
Industry executives speaking at HousingWire's AI Summit on Tuesday predict that AI agents will not only continue to take the reins on tasks now performed by real estate agents, loan officers and other
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WTOP
Aug 11
US existing homes fall 1.7% in July as record prices, high mortgage rates stifle would be
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year prove to be an…
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PRNewswire
Aug 11
OriginPoint Expands Colorado Presence with Award-Winning Producing Branch Manager Michelle Oddo
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OriginPoint is proud to announce that award-winning mortgage professional Michelle Oddo (NMLS #297239) has joined our company, bringing more than 23 years
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Barchart
Aug 11
Nvidia AI Chips Are Now an Asset Class. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Just Compared Them to Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Is Wall Street headed toward another MBS-style financial crisis, this time built on AI chips instead of bundled home loans?
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