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Dec 10, 2025

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How Mortgage's Biggest-Ever Brawl Went Down

Dec 8, 2025

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The Anti-50-Year Mortgage Hack & the Mortgage Reality Show America Deserves

Dec 5, 2025

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Freddie's the New AI Sheriff & Layoffs at Lennar Mortgage

Dec 3, 2025

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'Obamacare for Mortgages' & 5 M&A Predictions for '26

Dec 1, 2025

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No Cake for you! & an MBA-FICO Reckoning

Nov 26, 2025

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Inside the LO Bonus Trap & How Mortgages Worked in Colonial America

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When the Homebuilder’s Agent Roots Against Their Own Mortgage Co.

Dec 12, 2025

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When the Homebuilder’s Agent Roots Against Their Own Mortgage Co.

Why builder LOs & builder sales agents are often frenemies. Plus, what to make of Trump's EO on AI regulation, another Triple Play fight & more

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ICE's Hate-Love Relationship with Mortgage

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Rocket's empire-building, FICO's lobbying efforts, plus: who's buying tech

Aug 29, 2025

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Death & Life of Trigger Leads And Inside CFPB's Gutting

Death & Life of Trigger Leads And Inside CFPB's Gutting

EPM's default troubles, UWM's Refi 90 rates, plus: What has Vought wrought?

Aug 27, 2025

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loanDepot's Founder Mode & JPM's "shitty" mortgage biz

loanDepot's Founder Mode & JPM's "shitty" mortgage biz

Plus, mortgage fraud by the numbers and Barry Habib at Mar-a-Lago

Aug 25, 2025

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Inside UWM's hyper-growth strategy (don't call it retail)

Inside UWM's hyper-growth strategy (don't call it retail)

Plus, Pulte's favorite child, winning refis from servicers & more

Sep 3, 2025

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