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Rocket launches program to lower first-year mortgage payments

Housing Wire

For Rocket Pro TPO, home sellers or real estate agents will be funding the program, similar to a buydown program rival United Wholesale Mortgage launched last month. UWM announced that its temporary rate buydowns – fueled by seller concessions – would reduce borrowers’ interest rates by up to 2% for the first two years of a mortgage.

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Will new products stop the bleeding for mortgage lenders? 

Housing Wire

“For some smaller originators, it could kind of move the needle,” said Bose George, mortgage finance analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW). “But I don’t think it can be meaningful for the big companies just because these other markets are smaller than the traditional mortgage market.”

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Onto the Next: What to Know Before Selling Your Recently Purchased Home

HomeLight

“If you want to, you could sell your house immediately after the paperwork says it is officially yours,” says Kimberly Porter, CEO of Microcredit Summit , a top personal finance publication. You could forfeit any chance at making a profit — or even face a loss on the sale. As with any home sale, you’ll have to cough up some costs.