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Known for its rural communities, quaint towns, scenic lakes and mountain vistas, New Hampshire is probably not where you would expect to find one of the nation’s hottest housing markets — but the data says otherwise. According to Zillow, the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, was the most popular market on the listing portal in…

After initially entering the mortgage business in 2003 following a career change from accounting, Rick Rodriguez was reading a book about mortgages that included a chapter on the reverse mortgage product. He remembered thinking the chapter was intriguing and flagged it in his mind so he could look into the product further. After asking his…

It’s late December so all the 2025 mortgage rate forecasts have been published. Unfortunately, all of them are already wrong. Most housing market analysts expect mortgage rates to spend the year with a 6 handle. The most optimistic predictions assume 2025 will see mostly low 6s for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage. And yet with…

Ellington Financial, the parent company of major reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial, announced this week that it has issued a $243 million proprietary reverse mortgage securitization backed entirely by Longbridge’s “Platinum” product line. The loans will also continue to be serviced by Longbridge, according to the announcement of the securitization. HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage…