According to Curinos’ proprietary application index, March 2026 funded mortgage volume increased 35 percent y-o-y and increased 30 percent m-o-m. How did your company stack up? Curinos calculates that refinance and purchase rates were 5-6 basis points lower m-o-m and about 73 basis points y-o-y. (Curinos sources a statistically significant data set directly from lenders to produce these benchmark figures and drills into this data further here.) (Today’s podcast can be found here and this week’s ‘casts are Sponsored by Truework. Replace costly, error-prone verification waterfalls with a single, fully automated VOIE solution that delivers faster, more accurate, GSE-ready reports. So, your team can close more loans with less effort and lower cost. Today’s has an interview with Evergreen Home Loans’ Tamra Rieger on leadership, building teams, and winning business in the current rate environment.) Products, Services, and Software for Brokers and Lenders Missed milestones. Late valuations. Files are stuck between teams and third-party providers. Sound familiar? Default servicing depends on a network of third parties, but most organizations still rely on emails, status calls, and manually accessing provider systems for data entry and status updates to keep things moving. The result: delays, rework, and growing operational risk. In our latest blog, “Stop Managing Service Providers. Start Orchestrating Outcomes,” Clarifire challenges conventional wisdom, arguing the issue isn’t provider performance, but what happens when workflow breaks at the boundary between your team and your outside partners. The blog outlines how a workflow orchestration approach brings structure, visibility, and control across the entire default lifecycle, not just the parts your internal team touches. If you’re feeling the strain of manual efforts and managing service providers to keep timelines intact, this blog is worth reading.
