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Mortgage Banking: It’s All About Rates, Still Purchase-Money Holding Up
June 27, 2013
John Bancroft
and
Paul Muolo
Mortgage bankers continue to talk about declining refi applications but purchase money firms remain mostly optimistic about their prospects.
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