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Short Takes: Gone for Now: Really Low Rates and No Points / Tracking the Yield on the 10-Year / Why Home Price Gains May Taper Off / Nonbanks Get FHFA’s Approval

December 27, 2016

Carisa Chappell and Paul Muolo

“Home prices cannot rise faster than incomes and inflation indefinitely.” – David Blitzer, managing director of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones.

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Select Portfolio Loses Some Servicing Market Share in 4Q

Agency Market Phones It In, Rate Refis Slow in February

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