• Credit Union ONE acquires Icon Mortgage,Sarah Wolak

    Credit Union ONE acquires Icon Mortgage

    Credit Union ONE announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Icon Mortgage. A press release confirmed that Michigan-based Credit Union ONE will retain all employees from Icon Mortgage, including senior leadership, and “intends to operate the company as a separate mortgage lending affiliate.” The terms

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  • Disappointing housing permits show why we need 6% mortgage rates,Logan Mohtashami

    Disappointing housing permits show why we need 6% mortgage rates

    Homebuilders in America are cheering, not because of the disappointing housing permit data released today, but because mortgage rates are near 6%. We have seen four consecutive months of job losses in residential construction labor, as mortgage rates have been elevated and builders’ inventory has be

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  • Have Fed rate cuts already been priced into mortgage rates?,Logan Mohtashami

    Have Fed rate cuts already been priced into mortgage rates?

    Last week, mortgage rates hit a new low for 2025, as the labor market proved more critical to the bond market than inflation. The big question is: what will happen after the Fed cuts rates this week? Last year at this time, mortgage rates hit a yearly low of nearly 6% and the Fed cut rates — only to

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