Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In a new episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen chats with John Cornish of Iowa-based Key Mortgage Group about his path into the industry, tips for scaling a mortgage lending business and how to avoid stagnation as a loan originator. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. An additional 21% closed 1.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The transition of three veteran sales executives from South Carolina-based lender Movement Mortgage to its California competitor Summit Funding led to a legal battle over poaching. division Chris Shelton parted ways after more than a decade working at the company to join Summit. .” Shelton declined to comment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Movement Mortgage has named Steve Smith, a mortgage veteran who most recently served as Movement’s executive advisor, as its new president and chief financial officer. compared to the same period last year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF). The announcement was made Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Top-25 retail lender Movement Mortgage struck a deal to acquire Massachusetts-based retail firm Mortgage Network , multiple sources told HousingWire. . The transaction, confirmed by the companies, is a step to boost Movement’s presence on the East Coast amid shrinking loan origination volumes. Mortgage Network funded $2.5

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In fact, the last time the FOMC cut rates by half a point was during the 2008 global financial crisis. CoreLogic recently posted that an estimated 4 million loans are candidates for refinancing if mortgage rates float below 6.75%. “An BLOG VIEW: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Sept. An estimated $1.45

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Princeton Mortgage CEO Rich Weidel. When Rich Weidel took over his family-owned lender Princeton Mortgage , the company had funded 11 loans in January of 2018, employed about a dozen people and had zero loan officers. What was the reaction at Princeton Mortgage to the news? Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. billion in loan volume between June 2020 and June 2021. and former U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

New York-based nonbank mortgage lender RealFi (formally known as Residential Home Funding Corp. However, two former employees said the company communicated it’s shutting down its mortgage lending business. “They have let branch managers and loan officers go and say they are transitioning to a broker [shop].”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. In returning from its three-year hiatus, Interfirst said it had reinvented itself as a tech-forward mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

David Heilman, principal for HomeGrown Financial in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina , didn’t feel like he had to shake up his approach to working with seniors when he became involved in the reverse mortgage industry. I came at it from a senior services perspective rather than a mortgage or real estate angle.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Stevens, a legend of the mortgage banking industry who helmed the Federal Housing Agency and the Mortgage Bankers Association in a career that spanned four decades, has died. He left government service and became president of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Before the volatility wrought by high inflation and speculation about a rate hike by the Federal Reserve , mortgage applications increased 6.6% from the prior week, according to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association survey for the week ending June 10. For the week that ended June 3, mortgage applications fell 6.5% from 11.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

By late spring of 2020, the loan pipeline at Princeton Mortgage was full. It wasn’t so long ago that mortgage lenders were on top of the world. By the height of the bubble, the industry’s ranks had swelled to about 500,000 workers, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Now, we hire for attitude and ability.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Three independent wholesale brokers discuss how they found success in the wholesale channel during a HousingWire webinar on Thursday titled: ”Taking the Mortgage Boom to the Next Level.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. To view the complete research, click here.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Bad news for mortgage professionals: not only are mortgage rates at their highest level in over two decades, they might not drop anytime soon. On Wednesday morning, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 7.29% at HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center and 7.49% on Mortgage News Daily. When asked why U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HW: How has wholesale changed over the past 2–3 years?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But according to Shant Banosian, Guaranteed Rate’s top-ranked loan officer, now is the time for LOs to show up and work hard. “In Banosian compared today’s opportunity for growth to 2008, saying that those who were “killing it” in and after 2008 are not the same people who were doing well before then. “If

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Live Oak Bancshares and its subsidiary Live Oak Bank have appointed Casey Crawford, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Movement Mortgage , to its board of directors. Founded in 2008, Live Oak Bank has a digital, cloud-based bank serving small business owners in all 50 states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2021

I’ve spent years asking top mortgage lending execs this question: who’s your primary customer, loan officers or consumers? Note: other than the headline, I’m writing this without company names so we can see how these mortgage channel themes hold up years from now. Without them, America’s mortgage industry doesn’t fund 7.8

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. While many lenders laid off some of their staff to cut costs, others continue opening offices to capitalize on demand from homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

At least two financial institutions brought back adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) products this week amid surging mortgage rates and double-digit home price growth. Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint rolled out a jumbo ARM product offering a maximum loan amount as much as $2.5 Applications for ARMs rose 10.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. SVB’s mortgage origination volume reached $2.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

The raison d’etre is the same whether you work as a mortgage loan officer at a depository bank or an independent mortgage bank – originate a purchase mortgage or refinancing for a client. Loan officers working for depository banks are not bound by the same requirements.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, more than 90% of borrowers who closed a loan with fintech mortgage lender Neat Loans opted for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. “It’s obviously not just a flip flop, it’s a pretty big move,” said Luke Johnson, the founder and CEO of Neat Loans. . Stricter regulations, new guidelines.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

Some went risky with a popular ARM loan and got a 6.5% Servicers of the ARM loan start calling them in 2008 for a locked rate or fixed, lower rate. Over 25 years, this one person has been a mortgage customer of six different mortgage companies, each saving him over $100 per month. They happily accept 5.50% fixed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mortgage lenders have imposed new rounds of layoffs in the fourth quarter, reflecting a dreadful landscape for originators. . This week, the latest Freddie Mac weekly survey data showed that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 7.08%, up 13 basis points compared to last week. Rates averaged 2.98% this time last year. “As

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you’re a mortgage loan officer with a decade of experience in the industry, you have likely spent over 80 hours taking continuing education courses. Tricky situations can arise in mortgage lending, especially when navigating less-common products or originating non-agency loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. That has contributed to UWM’s competitors taking losses on loans when they can least afford it.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

NEXA Mortgage, the largest mortgage brokerage in the country, this week cut ties with the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts ( AIME ), claiming the trade group fails to address bullying and lacks proper governance. NEXA, founded in 2017 by Kortas , is a fast-growing mortgage brokerage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Older Americans are sitting on more than $12 trillion in home equity, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)/ Riskspan Reverse Mortgage Market Index. Today’s market includes mortgage rates of above 6%, low inventory and elevated home prices, all contributing to affordability problems. last year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Movement Mortgage has tapped Brady Yeager to join the team as national sales director, a role that will lead the expansion of Movement across the country. “I’ve always been passionate about helping loan officers grow their business to serve more families in our communities. and is licensed in 50 states.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. mortgage industry to fund $4.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 23, 2024

This happens when the previous owner defaults on their mortgage loan and the lender takes title to the property as collateral. Before embarking on a career in real estate, Shumaker worked as a Loan Officer, closing residential and commercial mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2022

Movement Mortgage was founded in 2008 with a mission to create a “movement of change” in the mortgage industry after one of the hardest financial episodes in American history. HW : What are some of the specific goals within Movement Mortgage to help close that gap in homeownership and how does this relate to Grab the Key?

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