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Housing Industry News

Mortgage Banking Summit: ‘Street fight’ market concentrates growth toward nondelegated lenders

Oct 2, 2026 · 05:18 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Data shows a small fraction of lenders capturing most new production as LOs shift to brokerage and correspondent platforms

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Christie’s International Real Estate SoCal adds $180M in agent production with Pasadena expansion

Oct 2, 2026 · 04:36 PM Brooklee Han HousingWire

New team additions posted $180 million in the past 12 months, the RealTrends Verified brokerage reported

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Housing Industry News

FHA launches optional transition period to UAD 3.6

Oct 2, 2026 · 03:28 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Lenders can begin sending FHA appraisals in UAD 3.6

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Jobs growth stalls — and that could be good news for mortgage rates

Oct 2, 2026 · 02:42 PM Brooklee Han HousingWire

Unemployment rose to 4.2% and prior 2 months were revised down by 60,000 jobs

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California’s $3.9B Midway Rising becomes a CEQA lightning rod

Oct 2, 2026 · 11:10 AM Richard Lawson HousingWire

SB 344 targets Midway Rising, a $3.9 billion redevelopment with 4,000 homes, SB 958 caps height as an infill project qualifier

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Housing Industry News

FHFA set to order Fannie, Freddie to accept two-bureau credit reports

Oct 1, 2026 · 09:05 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

The requirement is expected to take effect one to three months after it is announced, per Bloomberg

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Housing Industry News

Howard Hughes names Kaminski President of Arizona region

Oct 1, 2026 · 08:47 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

In the role, Kaminski will lead strategy and operations for Teravalis, a 37,000-acre master planned community in Buckeye

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Mortgage Banking Summit: FHFA’s unified LLPA grid for FICO, VantageScore raises investor concerns

Oct 1, 2026 · 08:31 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Summit participants question how investors will treat VS4-driven MBS pools

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Why Brookfield Residential put data governance ahead of AI

Oct 1, 2026 · 08:23 PM John McManus HousingWire

CIO Brandon Sharp says the company logged 250,000 internal hours and deployed 7 major systems to build a single source of truth

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Mortgage Rate News

Solid Mid-Day Recovery For Rates

Oct 1, 2026 · 08:09 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

It's a rarity these days, but mortgage rates actually moved lower today by more than a token amount. The average top-tier 30yr fixed rate fell to 7.54% from…

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