ICE: Mortgage Refinance Retention Reaches Multi-Year High

Mortgage servicer refinance retention rose to a 3.5-year high in the third quarter as falling interest rates encouraged homeowners to reduce monthly payments for lower returns than in past cycles.

MISMO Announces 2025 Standards Governance Committee Election Results

MISMO, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, announced the elected members to join or continue the 2026/2027 term on the Residential Standards Governance Committee and on the Commercial Standards Governance Committee.

Redfin Predicts a ‘Reset’ in 2026

Redfin, Seattle, predicts a “Great Housing Reset” will begin in 2026–a phenomenon it defines as a “years-long period of gradual increases in home sales and normalization of prices as affordability gradually improves.”