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Appraisal Institute Counters Flawed Appraiser Bias Narrative

Appraisal Today

The transformation is required at the end of 2026 with testing beginning late 2025. Private Money Lending – fast turn times, high fees. With non-lender appraisals you choose your clients, turn times, fees, scope of work, words you use, etc. The average contract interest rate for 15-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 6.64

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DataDigest: Goldilocks and the big IMBs

Housing Wire

The speed of the rate hikes has shrunk gain-on-sale margins because mortgage companies haven’t contracted quickly enough to offset falling demand. Its in-house servicing is helping extend the client life cycle, something that bigger players have used to great effect with refis. But servicing performance has been exceptional.

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