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Home equity conversion mortgage endorsements plummeted 14.3% in August 2021 to 3,679 loans.

Enact Holdings, Inc., a provider of private mortgage insurance through its insurance subsidiaries, commenced an initial public offering of 13,310,400 shares of common stock.

Rate lock volume increased by 1.3% in August 2021, according to Black Knight Inc.

Home prices were so high during the spring and summer seasons that buyers decided to hold off until prices cooled. Now, it looks like the time for them to jump back into the hunt is here.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency assigned preliminary ratings to 56 classes of mortgage pass-through certificates from Oceanview Mortgage Trust 2021-4 (OCMT 2021-4), a prime RMBS transaction.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. announced the pricing of an unwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its class A common stock.

Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported a very slight increase in the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, moving from 2.87% to 2.88% for the week ending Aug. 9, 2021.

WFG National Title Insurance Company announced that Monique Modica Vasek joined the company as its South Texas regional manager and Houston Division president

Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. named Ellen Steinfeld as executive vice president, head of consumer lending and payments.

Notarize and Snapdocs, Inc. entered a partnership in which brings two digital closing companies together in hopes to further streamline the closing process.