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A new episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast” aims to teach mortgage originators how to leverage tools and grow their businesses. Host Dustin Owen and Lauren Walton, a senior loan officer at Lower-backed Gerber Group, sit down to teach viewers how to move from the call-center model to retail lending as a top-ranked and self-sourced…

The nation’s two largest MLSs are teaming up yet again. On Wednesday, the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) and Mid-Atlantic-based Bright MLS announced that they will be offering subscribers reciprocal data access, or “guest access,” to reach other’s listings. CRMLS currently has more than 127,000 active listings and Bright MLS hosts more than 115,000 active listings….

CoStar has notched yet another procedural win in its legal battle with Move, the parent company of Realtor.com. In a ruling issued Tuesday, Judge George H. Wu of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles granted CoStar’s motion to dismiss two of Move’s claims in its first amended complaint. The claims alleged violations of the Computer…

A 60 basis point increase in mortgage rates in October has strangled mortgage demand, particularly for refinancings, according to the latest survey data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage applications overall decreased 0.1% from one week earlier, per the MBA‘s weekly applications survey for the week ending Oct. 25.  The Market Composite Index, a measure…