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Suddenly everyone’s ruminating on upcoming mergers and acquisitions (and there will definitely be some), but in the lower management ranks, lenders are already shifting their hiring practices, and taking a careful measure of production and productivity. Will we ever run out things to measure? The median age (half above, half below) of owner-occupied homes across the U.S. is 39 years, according to the latest data from the 2019 American Community Survey. (New York has the oldest owner-occupied homes at a median age of 60 years while Nevada has the newest at a median age of 23 years.) Why should every loan originator care about the age of housing in their area? As a lender, do you have a renovation product, or 2nd? The age of the housing stock is an important remodeling market indicator. Older houses are less energy-efficient than new constr