Paul Knag
Founder, RateZip
Paul Knag created RateZip in late 2007. A former mortgage executive at American Home Mortgage and the founder of online lender MortgageSelect.com, he started RateZip after AHM collapsed in the financial crisis, with one goal that hasn't changed since: bring transparency to shopping for financial products online - mortgages, personal loans, deposit accounts, the numbers in the open.
Today more than 1.5 million people visit RateZip each month. Paul runs Peklava LLC, DBA RateZip, a licensed mortgage broker (NMLS ID 1592292), and built the rate-tracking infrastructure behind RateZip's published indexes, including the Mortgage Demand Index.
He writes about mortgage and home-equity markets and edits RateZip's daily rate reports.
Covers: mortgage rates, home equity, reverse mortgages, market data
Contact: pknag@ratezip.com · NMLS verification
Recent articles
- The million-dollar lease: Why some of America's top earners rent →October 17, 2026
- 10 places where home value estimates have shifted since summer →October 8, 2026
- Mortgage rates top 7%: the weekly rise is small beside the annual change →September 26, 2026
- Foreclosure activity is climbing among the homes we track — and Florida nearly doubled →August 22, 2026
- Mortgage rates today, August 3, 2026: posted lender rates hold across the board →August 3, 2026