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Mortgage and Housing Layoffs

Rocktop’s Cade Thompson on inefficiencies in mortgage lending

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Fannie Mae‘s latest Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey points to a growing trend of lenders that want to make the mortgage process and its various components as efficient as possible. In 2025, lenders ranked streamlined business processes, reduced costs and consumer-facing technology as their leading priorities. Every touch point in a mortgage’s life cycle — from […]

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Rocket revamps real estate arm, moves home search to Redfin

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Rocket Companies has begun to reshape Rocket Homes, its real estate subsidiary, following the closing of its acquisition of Redfin. The changes include sunsetting Rocket Homes’ search portal, consolidating agent networks and executing layoffs. Users who visit the Rocket Homes website are now met with a message stating they “can search for homes on Rocket

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Rocket lays off 2% of workforce after closing Redfin acquisition

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Detroit-based Rocket Companies confirmed a company-wide layoff on Friday, just weeks after completing its $1.75 billion all-stock acquisition of real estate brokerage Redfin. The cuts affected roughly 2% of the firm’s workforce. “Following the Redfin acquisition, we carefully reviewed our combined structure, identified overlapping roles and made the difficult decision to streamline teams,” a spokesperson

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