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Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday afternoon. Demand for mortgages hit a 22-year low this week, according to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). An almost entirely gloomy year for lenders still has a chance to brighten, according to…

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This year’s housing market has been filled with its share of surprises, as conditions have transitioned out of their pandemic-induced frenzy and into what forecasters claimed would return to seasonality. While part of those predictions called for the surging price growth of the past two years to slow, new data from Zillow suggests that home…

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The number of zombie properties, which are pre-foreclosure, abandoned homes—seen as boarded-up blights to the community by many—ticked up in the third quarter of 2022. The total number increased by 1.8% from the last quarter and by 2.2% from one year ago, according to ATTOM, a curator of real estate data. ATTOM’s report, based on…

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