If a year ago at this time, everyone looked into their personal crystal balls and predicted mortgage originators would have their best year ever in the midst of a pandemic, odds are that would have been considered too outrageous.
For 2021, National Mortgage News reached out to people in the mortgage and ancillary businesses for their (more or less) outrageous predictions on what could happen. Several of our pundits' short takes on the market are diametrically opposed!
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