Existing Single-Family Homes Supply Jumps To 10-Year High, Sales Slip Deeper Into Deep Freeze; Mortgage Rates Rise To 6.49%

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Elliott Kunstlinger (pictured top), who recently joined Eastern Union as a senior mortgage broker, said the reality of those headwinds became clear following a recent conversation with a contact at a major institutional lender. “Yes, rates are where they are, and everybody likes to point to that,” Kunstlinger told Mortgage Professional America. “But I was…