How AI could increase mortgage rates:
▫️Only 30% of US homeowners refinance mortgages when interest rates fall.
▫️AI-powered mortgage tools (eg. Rocket, UWM, Better) could increase number of refinancers to 60% by reducing paperwork friction and automating more of the process.
▫️In response, banks to raise rates across $9T mortgage market…tytt homelending rates are set with expectation that most people don’t have time (or information) about the opportunity to prepay/refinance when rates drop.
Borrowers can still come out on top depending on how many refinance and level of rate change…but definitely a new equilibrium.
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