500-page mortgage applications are the new normal

... burst, file size has grown steadily and dramatically," said Peter Grabel, a loan officer for Luxury Mortgage in Stamford, Conn. Just seven or eight years ago, the typical application file ran to about a hundred pages, he said. Some for "no-doc" ...

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