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The mortgage industry built a sales infrastructure. It now needs a navigation infrastructure

Incentives have always driven mortgage lending. Loan officers originate loans. Lenders compete for production. Borrowers search for the lowest available rate. Regulators work to ensure fairness across the process. Over time, these competing forces produced a complex economic architecture designed to keep loan production flowing through an already intricate financial system. For decades, that architecture…