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California Association of Realtors

Updated 2026-08-01

Lenders, such as savings-and-loan associations, commercial banks and mortgage companies, who make mortgage loans directly to borrowers. These lenders sometimes sell their mortgages to the secondary mortgage markets.

California Association of Realtors Glossary

California Association of Realtors · pp. 10–12

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