The broker network business is as cutthroat as any. Firms trip over themselves to attract producing brokers, and these companies have learned that "exclusives" sell. To date, the biggest exclusives have centred around lenders, like DLC's HSBC deal, M3's National Bank pact, and DLC&

December’s inflation bump caught forecasters off guard, but underlying inflation measures told a less coherent story. The prevailing interpretation leaned dovish, a conclusion that smells suspiciously of groupthink. As is our unfashionable but effective custom, we took a little more time to look at all the evidence before committing.

This is Part II of MLN's one-on-one conversation with HomeEquity Bank (HEB) SVP Rene Quercia. In this final installment, Rene zeroes in on six subjects mortgage brokers should find helpful: * A new reverse mortgage product in development * HEB's policy on renewal pricing * Whether HESAs are a

If you bought a home with 5% down around Q4 2021 or Q1 2022, odds are your mortgage is still "high-ratio." Depending on your rate, where you bought, and what you paid, by 2026, you may have amortized only 12-16% of your mortgage so far. In fact, average