Compass, a digital real estate brokerage backed by Japanese venture capital powerhouse SoftBank, has acknowledged that it is laying off as many as 40 employees in its marketing, information technology and mergers departments. So reports The Real Deal.

Long-term mortgage rates have sunk to their second-lowest level since 2017 as market worries about the coronavirus outbreak have paradoxically given U.S. homebuyers a boost. So reports MarketWatch.

United Shore Financial hits Rocket Mortgage, the recently named “official mortgage sponsor” of the Super Bowl, with the force of a charging linebacker in a newly revealed Super Bowl commercial of its own. So reports The Detroit News.