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loanDepot promotes Viviana Abarca to lead mortgage lending operations

Housing Wire

loanDepot has promoted Viviana Abarca, who has worked for the mortgage lender for the past 11 years, to managing director of mortgage lending operations. Abarca joined loanDepot as an underwriter in 2013 and became vice president of lending operations in 2021. billion in mortgages, down from $5.3 billion in the previous quarter.

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Kind Lending hires Tammy Richards as COO

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Mortgage lender Kind Lending has hired Tammy Richards , who previously held positions at Bank of America , Caliber Home Loans and loanDepot , as its chief operating officer. Kind Lending, a California-based lender founded by industry veteran Glenn Stearns, is a client of LendArch , a mortgage consulting firm that Richards founded in 2021.

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Floify launches lending platform for mortgage brokers

Housing Wire

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a lending platform for mortgage brokers built on the foundation of the Floify point-of-sale (POS) platform. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — The Colorado-headquartered firm was acquired by publicly traded proptech company Porch Group, Inc.

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Northpointe Bank to shutter its correspondent lending business

Housing Wire

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Production declined 25% to $5.49 billion in 2022 from the previous year’s volume of $7.29

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Lending standards tighten due to high rates, worsening economic outlook

Housing Wire

Lending standards tightened in October, largely due to higher mortgage rates and the worsening outlook for the economy, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said. This caused it to reach its lowest level since March 2013, according to the MBA. This caused it to reach its lowest level since March 2013, according to the MBA.

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Stearns Lending to lay off 348 workers

Housing Wire

Stearns Lending will lay off 348 workers following the decision by Guaranteed Rate earlier this month to discontinue operations of its third-party wholesale channel. The post Stearns Lending to lay off 348 workers appeared first on HousingWire. HousingWire sent a message seeking comment to Guaranteed Rate, which was not returned.

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What originators may not know about non-QM lending

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In light of that, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins recently sat down with Tom Hutchens, EVP of Production at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions , to talk all things non-QM lending. . While there are logistical learning curves, the main thing Hutchens highlights as a challenge is preconceived – and misinformed – ideas of what non-QM lending is. “We’ve

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