New partnerships are slated to yield an AI-powered originations platform in one case and preferred mortgage rates and homebuying advice as an employee benefit in another.

ICE said the voice agent can manage thousands of simultaneous interactions.

Loveen Advani, chief financial officer at Better, projected that the company will hit breakeven status by the third quarter of 2026, when looking at earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

“We have built a profitable, scalable platform, and now we have the tools to fundamentally rewire how our customers operate,” said Nima Ghamsari, head of Blend.

United Wholesale Mortgage's agency MBS issuance declined by 6.5% on a monthly basis in February while Rocket Mortgage's volume was down 16.5%.

"It is possible that pull-through rates declined in February as mortgage rates continued to drift lower through the month," according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.

United Wholesale Mortgage is offering a 75-basis-point pricing incentive for certain conventional and government-insured refinances through March, as well as a $600 appraisal credit for purchase mortgages through April.

"We structurally doubled the capacity of every production team member through technology," said Varun Krishna, CEO and director of Rocket Companies.

Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure Technology Solutions, said some lenders are on the verge of shifting some of their mortgage business from the GSEs to FTS.

“Low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem while at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house,” President Trump said.