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Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday afternoon. – Mortgage rates ticked up slightly during the second week of June, from 6.48% to 6.52% per findings from Freddie Mac, but mortgage applications also creeped up due to so-called “pockets of opportunity” (e.g.,…

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Second Century Ventures (SCV) has announced a strategic partnership with the Confederación Inmobiliaria Latinoamericana (CILA), the leading confederation of real estate associations, chambers and professionals across Latin America.  SCV operates REACH, the world’s most active real estate technology accelerator, with programs spanning the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Latin…

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Consumers are feeling some minor relief as summer approaches, however the weight of economic challenges is still exuding some downward pressure, according to the latest data from the University of Michigan. In the preliminary results for June, the Index of Consumer Sentiment saw a positive shift for the first time in three months, jumping up…

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